I cannot suggest you a solution, but just a test to see what's happening. Look at the following quote from a post of mine in a similar thread.
--------------------- Re: Xorg freezes, crashes, locks, shoots and leaves Dear Gene,
I know your problem very well! Anyway, after having X freezing the system for several months, at present it doesn't happen any more. It's hard to say way.
I only can suggest you to add the following lines to xorg.conf:
Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowDeactivateGrabs" "true" Option "AllowClosedownGrabs" "true" EndSection
They allow you to use C-A-K-* and C-A-K-/ to try to unlock X in some situations (see man xorg.conf for a few detail). To avoid misunderstandings, please note that C-A-K-* means "Control, Alt, Keypad *" pressed together.
This could be a start to investigate what is happening to your system. I would not be very optimistic, but at least you can try, it's very easy. Remember to restart your X server after the changes above.
Best regards... and good luck!!! -------------------------------
Christophe Lambert wrote:
Hi,
I am running the RedHat Fedora core 2 on an Athlon computer. The computer ran without any problem since the Fedora core 2 release. Since the following updates, the X windows system freezes after a random amount of time.
Package Installed: kernel 2.6.8-1.521.i686
Package Dependency Installed: kdebase-devel 6:3.2.2-6.FC2.i386 kdelibs-devel 6:3.2.2-8.FC2.i386 samba-common 3.0.7-2.FC2.i386 samba-client 3.0.7-2.FC2.i386
Package Updated: imlib 1:1.9.13-19.i386 lha 1.14i-14.1.i386 kdebase 6:3.2.2-6.FC2.i386 cdda2wav 8:2.01-0.a27.4.FC2.3.i386 cdrecord 8:2.01-0.a27.4.FC2.3.i386 mkisofs 8:2.01-0.a27.4.FC2.3.i386 kdelibs 6:3.2.2-8.FC2.i386 kudzu 1.1.68.2-1.i386 samba 3.0.7-2.FC2.i386
Characteristics: - The X process is running at 99% of CPU. - There is no related lines in log files - It seems to be not dependent on the kernel (I tried under 2.6.7 and 2.6.8). - It appears under Gnome as well as under KDE - It seems independently related to applications I used (Evolution, Emacs, Mozilla, Terminal or ... nothing) - It seems to be not related to the screen saver: it does not matter if it is activated or not.
The only thing I can do is to log in from another computer, kill the X process, go to telinit 3 and then telinit 5.
The problem happens about 10 times per day.
If somebody has any idea to solve/find the problem, he is welcome.
Thanks, Christophe
Hello Andrea,
When you gave me the xorg.conf advice for my crashing/locking X I was also hearing my hard drive making strange noises and printing dma errors and getting very hot. Figured that *must* be the problem. Got new drive and managed to salvage my data off old drive before it heated up and reinstalled fc2 from cd. Figured that was my problem. Well it must not have been. Got another X lockup since reinstalling on new hd. Also, have seen one other lockup that is not X I don't think. When shutting down, when it goes back to the text screen and after showing some "shutting down" text in red letters it would lock up there. Would have to hit reset. Saw this with old bad drive and new drive too. Also, system is Athlon. However, have not had X lock with keypad keys enabled as you recommended. Will try it when it occurs.
-gene
