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... -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
