Re: [MLUG] hard X crash that kills keyboard

[George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

It helps for a sanity check ;)  It just amazes me that the crash is  
knocking out the keyboard.

Thanks for the input!

George



On May 1, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Dave McBride wrote:

> 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
> > _______________________________________________
> > members mailing list
> > EMAIL:PROTECTED
> > http://mlug.missouri.edu/mailman/listinfo/members
>
> _______________________________________________
> members mailing list
> EMAIL:PROTECTED
> http://mlug.missouri.edu/mailman/listinfo/members


_______________________________________________
members mailing list
EMAIL:PROTECTED
http://mlug.missouri.edu/mailman/listinfo/members