Actually I found it quicker than I thought. There's mention of the "Activity Monitor Trick" for un-hanging X11 in this Apple Discussion Forum thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1049889&start=0&tstart=0 Cheers, Jamie On Mar 31, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Jamie Kennea wrote: > I see this message: > > [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop. > > FYI, I'm working off hazy memories, and somewhat anecdotal evidence, but I > remember that the old hang in X11 used to be fixed by something odd like > using Activity Monitor. I'll have to Google at some point. Sadly strange > events in the Universe are taking up my time right now, so I might not get to > this quickly. > > Cheers, > > Jamie > > On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > >> Hmm... so the sample just shows quartz-wm waiting for events (ie: idle). >> >> It's odd that sampling quartz-wm would fix the issue for you. Are there any >> messages like "quartz-wm: caught exception: ..." in /var/log/system.log? >> >> On Mar 30, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Jamie Kennea wrote: >> >>> Hi Jeremy, >>> >>> It happened again. This time with 2.6.1 final version. >>> >>> I've attached the sample of quartz-wm. I verified that >>> /opt/X11/bin/quartz-wm is the version running. >>> >>> Both times I was using xemacs. I remember xemacs in the past used to cause >>> hangs in X11 (back in the pre-you days), especially when doing mouse-wheel >>> scrolling. >>> >>> Here's a weird thing.... running the sample seemed to fix it...hmm.... >>> >>> Jamie >>> >>> <Sample of quartz-wm.txt> >>> >>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: >>> >>>> Weird. If it happens again, please also get a sample of the quartz-wm >>>> process. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Jeremy >>>> >>>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:12, Jamie Kennea wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Yeah. This sounds a lot like quartz-wm has grabbed the pointer and not >>>>>> released it. This was a problem in the past but should be fixed with >>>>>> recent versions. Can you verify that the correct quartz-wm is being >>>>>> run? 'ps aux | grep quartz-wm' should show /opt/X11/bin/quartz-wm and >>>>>> not /opt/local/bin/quartz-wm or /usr/bin/quartz-wm... althought I think >>>>>> both of those versions should be fine as well... >>>>> >>>>> It shows: /opt/X11/bin/quartz-wm >>>>> >>>>> I've quit now and upgraded to 2.6.1 (I had to actually be able to do some >>>>> work). Hopefully this won't happen again. >>>>> >>>>> Jamie >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Xquartz-dev mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Xquartz-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Xquartz-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xquartz-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev > _______________________________________________ Xquartz-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev
