Re: [MLUG] hard X crash that kills keyboard

[Dave McBride <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I had problems with essentially the same symptoms, but in older versions 
of X (pre-FC era). Different versions, different distros, same problem. 
It seemed to manifest itself in the first release of a version upgrade, 
but I never tried to prove it empirically.

I also never found out why it happened. I was able to work around the 
problem by swearing a lot, then upgrading, downgrading, or just 
switching distros. In each case, I wiped the OS and started fresh.  Mind 
you, this was on my own, home computer where my only real expenses were 
aggravation and wasted time.

Sorry it isn't much help,
Dave

George Robb wrote:
> Hi MLUG-
>
> Has anyone had experience with FC4 (Ya, ya.. I know old school...) that 
> crashes X so hard that the keyboard no longer responds to status LEDs 
> (num lock, caps lock, etc...) or even ctrl-alt-del.  
> Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Backspace won't even kill X.  The monitor goes out of 
> sync (no signal) and the keyboard becomes a paperweight.
>
> A work around was to edit the inittab to keep things in runlevel 3 but, 
> for this particular user a GUI is a must.  I nuked xorg.conf and had the 
> system build a new one with X -configure.  even X -config xorg.conf.new 
> crashes the system.  If I ssh in the system reveals that X is at 99.7% 
> cpu and has no desire to chill out.  A kill -15 bounces off and a kill 
> -9 brings things back to normal of course with no X.
>
> Anyone else seen this before?
>
> Thanks,
>
> George
>
>
>
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