On 16-Dec-2001 Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Recently installed 0.61.2pre4 on my home workstation. Everything seemed > fine 'til just a short while ago. > > I had a few rxvt (v 2.7.6) sessions open along with gkrellm (v1.2.2) and > Evolution (v1.0) and esd (v 0.2.22). I noticed that new mail had > arrived and went to filter my INBOX. That's when I noticed that none of > the applications where responding. The mouse would move without a > hitch, but nothing would respond. I couldn't change to another virtual > terminal and I couldn't kill X (via CTRL-ALT-BKSPCE). I was however > able to remote into the system from my laptop. From the remote session > I noticed that X was taking nearly 100% of the CPU time. I tried > killing the process by sending a SIGTERM, SIGSEGV, and SIGKILL. None of > these worked. I then force a switch to runlevel 3 via 'init 3' and the > X session died. I was then able to switch back to runlevel 5 via 'init > 5' and everything seems to be working again. > > Are there any steps that I could take to provide more useful tracking > information if this happens again? >
not that I can think of. How odd. Well, pre6 is up. Not sure if it matters for this one or not.
