From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 29 14:48: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F1537B406 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:47:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA71807 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:47:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:47:56 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: StarOffice driving XFree86-4 to use 100% of CPU Message-ID: <20010629174756.A71776@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I just installed a brand new 4.3-stable laptop. The video card is a Savage IX, so I'm running XFree86-4.0.1_4, from packages. Everything seems fine, except StarOffice. When I start SO, X freezes up. The box becomes completely nonresponsive. When I ssh in from another machine (try *this* on another desktop operating system!) to see what's happening, the box won't respond either. I have to kill the power to shut the machine down. After reproducing this reliably, I ssh in before starting StarOffice, fire up top, and watch. StarOffice seems fine, but X starts to soak up more and more CPU. top quickly shows X using 100% of the CPU. If I don't reboot the machine over the remote SSH connection, I'm kicked out anyway. Hello, power button. I've tried this with both WindowMaker and twm, so I don't think it's my window manager. The other large Linux program I could get quickly was WordPerfect. It installs and runs just fine. I don't think it's the Linux compatability. StarOffice also had this behavior several times when I tried to install it. It worked on the umpteenth try, and I hoped that it had decided to behave. Uortunately, I have to rely upon it to read the MS documents going around the office. Has anyone seen this behavior? Any suggestions? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message