XFCE Hangs

John Lee johnleemk at gawab.com
Sun Feb 12 16:14:07 CET 2006


Andrew Conkling wrote:

>On 2/9/06, Andrew Conkling <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 2/9/06, John Lee <johnleemk at gawab.com> wrote:
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>>>Alexander Toresson wrote:
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>>>>Please define "Xfce hangs" -- is it just the xfce apps that hang? What
>>>>can you do and what is displayed when this happens?
>>>>
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>>>I can move the mouse cursor. That's all. The screen is otherwise frozen
>>>and non-responsive. When I click the mouse, it appears to have no
>>>effect. Bashing the keyboard -- including attempting to enable/disable
>>>caps lock and num lock -- does not result in any response.
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>>With the crazy NVidia bug, you couldn't even Ctrl+Alt+F1 to a vt; can
>>you do this?  If so, check 'top' for CPU usage and make sure X isn't
>>throttling the CPU.  If not, I would say this is something going on
>>with X and/or the video driver.
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>Followup on my followup: If not, you may also be able to ssh into your
>computer, assuming you have this set up and another computer on which
>to do it.  If you can do this, you should be able to check 'top'. 
>This is how I found out what happens when NVidia screws X over. :)
>
>HTH,
>Andrew
>
>--
>http://aconkling.blogspot.com
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Okay, I SSHed into it when it hung a few minutes ago, and I confirmed 
it's X that's causing the problem (something like 94% of the CPU). I 
restarted X from the SSH terminal. So, what now?

John Lee
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