Abe, Next time this happens, try attaching to the 100% CPU process with strace (see "strace --help" for options) and see what it's spending its time on. If it's reproducible for your friend, have him run "xev" while this happens, and see what events X gets. It might also be worth it to try the latest snapshot of Cygwin (although you probably might as well just wait a bit for 1.3.20 to come out). Igor
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Abraham Backus wrote: > Hello, > > I've encountered this once today and a coworker of mine is encountering it > frequenty. When the windows system goes into screensaver mode and he comes > back, X is locked up and he can't do anything. He has to forcibly kill the > X processes and restart. It happens every time for him and I had him do > various things like minimizing and restoring the XFree86 window, as well as > checking with XFree86 in the foreground, background, or minimized. Also, he > says it happens regardless of which screensaver is selected. > > When it happened to me, I noticed that XWin.exe was taking up a considerable > amount of CPU (it was at 100%) from windows task manager. I haven't been > able to reproduce it since then. > > I've searched the mailing list archives and wasn't able to find anything > related to this. Maybe someone else has encountered this or knows what's > up? > > thanks! > -Abe > > His box: > Windows 2000 SP3 > cygwin-1.3.18-1 > fvwm-2.4.7-2 > XFree86-base-4.2.0-1 > XFree86-bin-4.2.0-2 > XFree86-etc-4.2.0-1 > XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2 > XFree86-fnts-4.2.0-2 > XFree86-lib-4.2.0-3 > XFree86-startup-scripts-4.2.0-3 > XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-15 > X startup parameters: "C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c startx" > > My box: > Windows XP Home SP1 > cygwin 1.3.19-1 > fvwm-2.4.14-1 > XFree86-base-4.2.0-1 > XFree86-bin-4.2.0-2 > XFree86-etc-4.2.0-1 > XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2 > XFree86-fnts-4.2.0-2 > XFree86-lib-4.2.0-3 > XFree86-man-4.2.0-1 > XFree86-prog-4.2.0-1 > XFree86-startup-scripts-4.2.0-3 > XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-25 > X startup parameters: "C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c "XWin -rootless >-emulate3buttons -clipboard"" -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune