On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:30:13PM +0300, Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani wrote:
> While working on KDE lately, I came a cross some weird hangs. Mouse won't 
> respond. Keyboard won't respond. NumLock won't respond. Mouse cursor stops 
> spinning (XCursors animated mouse theme) etc, but it seems like the kernel 
> keeps running...

The X server seems hung. The next question ought to be: can you connect
from a different system and kill it?

> 
> My machine acts as an ICS gateway, and people from inside the network can surf 
> out while my GUI is hanged...

Yes, you can.

> 
> Some tech info:
> Software:
> - Gentoo Linux
> - KDE 3.1.2
> - Qt 3.1.2-r3
> - XFree-r2

What version of XFree?

> 
> Hardware:
> - AMD AthlonXP 2100+
> - Gigabyte 7VAXP MB
> - GeForce3 (using the nvidia driver)
> and some other irrelevant stuff...
> 
> Anyway, it occurs randomly.
> Once it happened because I wanted to drag a selection rect near some icons on 
> my desktop, and once because I opened The GIMP...

This is a bug in the X server, I figure (by definition. according to the
symptoms).

> 
> Since the kernel is running (I hope it is... it's a new hardware), I thought 
> that it was X's fault but I was unable to verify that...
> In addition, it might be Qt's/KDE's fault, but I never got to work in another 
> environment long enough...

This is definetly because you use KDE. You should try you should try 
[=====] (removed by the coalition against content free misinformed ramblings 
on linux-il)

> 
> Did someone came across that sort of a problem?

Seriously: I remember an annoying bug in licq 0.70 (?) a couple of years 
ago that triggered such X freezings. Generally they are rare. If they
are reoccoring, chances are you're not the only one having them...

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