On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:19 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote: > Reading the Ubuntu forums, I've noticed quite a few reports from users > complaining about Wine deadlocking their system - keyboard unresponsive, > with no solution but to restart the entire computer. > > Sometimes users report this problem after running ANY Wine process - > even winecfg. > > I'm not sure what's causing the issue. At first I thought it was a > hardware thing (perhaps ATI's infamously terribly drivers), but would > that still prevent winecfg from working? Wine is a user-level process, > it shouldn't be able to cause a hardlock under any circumstances, right? > > Anyone else seen these kinds of reports?
Hi Scott - Not Wine related, but on Debian Sid OpenOffice 2.1/2.2, if I click a menu item it will randomly 'deadlock'. The system isn't really locked up though, if I ssh in from another machine I can see my X server is pegged at 100%. Killing X, of course restarts everything under it, but the machine is still technically 'responsive'. So... Ubuntu is a form of Debian... X locks up.. I figured it was just my Xserver, as I use an old Matrox 400 Dual Head.... Maybe it's just a coincidence.. Rick > Thanks, > Scott Ritchie > > > -- -- Rick Romero IT Manager Valeo, Inc. ph: 262.695.4841 Sussex, WI. fax: 262.695.4850 [EMAIL PROTECTED]