Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:07:45 +0530 From: Gobbledegeek <gobbledegeek@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: gobbledegeek@gmail.com Subject: Re: Xorg/Gnome/KDE freeze on latest release Message-ID: <463aea570701171137x49ae5372v75cbd680fc97ef0f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <463aea570701171135w4ac9951o59d06ac901ab5e2f@mail.gmail.com> References: <463aea570701171135w4ac9951o59d06ac901ab5e2f@mail.gmail.com>
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PS: This can happen some 10-15 mins into an X session, not always immediately on login. Suspect applications are firefox 1.5.0.8 and firefox2.0 and Konqueror. Seems to happen soon after launching any of these applications. Regards On 1/18/07, Gobbledegeek <gobbledegeek@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All > > I've been seeing system freezes on freebsd 6.2 Release and also the > older RC2. Absolutely No errors reported in logs. Suddenly the mouse > cursor movement is reduced to a crawl, and the keyboard freezes. > Mouse-clicks do not launch any applications or switch tasks. I > cannot switch back to vty1/2/3... or any console and had to resort > to cold-starting a dozen times to recover from the hangs in the last > few days, dirtying my filesystem in the process each time.. sometimes > had to reinstall corrupted kde/xorg packages > > I'm writing this mail from windows, so I do not have the uname and > Xorg logs with version numbers, but from memory its > > freebsd 6.2 release#3 i386 machine. Xorg release 6.9. KDE version 3.5.4 . > > In case my version number recall is mistaken - Gnome/KDE are the > versions obtained remotely on the 15th of Jan. I did cvsup and > buildworld steps today 17th of Jan. The problem has remained since > RC2. I did not have X during RC1, so I don't know if it was > present in that release. > > This is on an athlon64 cpu soc 754 with nforce3 250gb chipset with > Radeon 7500. DRI is loading correctly on startup. No hangs on > windoz, so its not a hardware issue. Unless its got to do with > freebsd drivers for usb wireless (iBall) keyb/mouse. But the system > never hangs if I don't load X/Gnome/KDE. Sound/Artsd seems to work > fine. > > I see this on both regular 4.4BSd and ULE scheduler based kernels > > Please reply-to-all as I am not subscribed. > > -- > Rgrds > GobbledeGeek > [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!] > -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!]
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