On Monday 01 October 2007, James Rayner wrote:
> On Mon, October 1, 2007 21:45, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > On Monday 01 October 2007, RedShift wrote:
> >> Jason Chu wrote:
> >> > I've got this weird problem that I think is caused by X.
> >> >
> >> > I've been following testing for a while now (so I have gnome, db, and
> >> > heimdal).
> >> >
> >> > Every so often, and apparently randomly, X will stop taking any input
> >> > except for mouse movement.  But the mouse movement doesn't even
> >>
> >> trigger
> >>
> >> > the focus follows mouse.
> >> >
> >> > The panel will still update and so will windows, but my input just
> >> > totally doesn't work.
> >> >
> >> > The only thing that I can do to fix it seems to be sshing in and
> >>
> >> killing
> >>
> >> > X. I run xfce4 so it might be the gnome/gtk updates that aren't
> >>
> >> working
> >>
> >> > well with it...
> >> >
> >> > Has anyone heard anything about problems with X or is it just me?
> >
> > Been going on a long time.
> >
> > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7513
>
> That sounds like a different problem. There's subtle differences.
>
> With this one, we get full input lock, but mouse still moves, and X can
> still be killed with ctrl-alt-backspace. That exact symptom has only
> appeared in the last few days/week.
>
> The other one listed there is a hard lock requiring hardware reset.
>

That bug started out based on what you are talking about, a bunch of other 
people started adding the hardlock stuff, but everything I reported in that 
thread, as well as the initial report relates to what you are talking about.

Anyway, on my system at least, I traced it down to something that superkaramba 
was doing to trigger some kind of bug in the xserver, but only when using the 
nvidia driver.  After trying a bajillion combinations of apps, turning off 
beryl, I discovered that if I didn't load superkaramba, the problem went 
away.

-- 
Greg

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