Re: [MLUG] hard X crash that kills keyboard

["shawn parker" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

have you installed any 3rd party software or utilities on the box? we
ran into a similar, although not as disastrous, issue after installing
dell's open-manage on one of our servers.

a lib got corrupted some how (had 0 bytes for size and appended some
weird string on the end of the file name). every time we rebooted the
server if open-manage daemons were running, x would crash or some
software would fail to work; like firefox.

we never officially found a reason for the problems, but i removed the
bad lib and replaced it with a good copy and everything is fine now.


On 5/1/07, George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Normal would be the grey background and the X cursor.  I'd be happy
> with that.  When I try X -config /myconfig it causes keyboard locks
> and the only way to kill it is to ssh in.
>
> Thanks for the input!
>
> George
>
> On May 1, 2007, at 12:14 PM, McIntosh Jason wrote:
>
> > Well, the cheese I think is normal, isn't it?  i.e. no background
> > so it displays that?  Try starting xterm along with it, see if that
> > gets you something.  Does that X -config /myconfig cause the CPU
> > and keyboard failure, where you can't kill X?  If not, it does
> > sound like something with the default X startup is at issue.
> > Otherwise, I'd guess DRI or some other thing loading with X.
> > Jason
> >
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> > On May 1, 2007, at 12:07 PM, George Robb wrote:
> >
> >> Any attempt to run X causes cheese.   e.g.  X -config /root/
> >> xorg.conf.new  Which should just bring up a grey screen with an X
> >> cursor.
> >>
> >> Just another odd one to chalk up as "hmmm"
> >>
> >> George
> >>
> >> On May 1, 2007, at 10:36 AM, McIntosh Jason wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just another random thought... is X starting something perhaps
> >>> that's taking the CPU time?  i.e. gconf/bonobo or similar?  You
> >>> could try starting a super super simple system of X, i.e. run X
> >>> with just an xterm.
> >>> Jason
> >>>
> >>> /--------------------------------------|---------------------------\
> >>> | Jason McIntosh                       | CELL: 573-424-7612        |
> >>> | Webmaster, thinker, programmer, etc. | WORK: 573-884-3865        |
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> >>> |for.  I only coded it."                                           |
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> >>> \--------------------------------------|---------------------------/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On May 1, 2007, at 10:29 AM, George Robb wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> 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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