Re: [MLUG] hard X crash that kills keyboard

[George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

xorg.0.log has a (WW) warnings about video bios (no current access to  
machine at the moment).  A ton of (II) about memory addresses and  
video modes and normal info.  No (EE) errors at all.

George




On May 1, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Scott Hussey wrote:

> Does the xorg.log tell you anything interesting when you SSH in?
>
> On 5/1/07, George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED> 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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