Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2002 19:28:40 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.34 randomly freezes under X (seems input related) |
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"Michel Eyckmans (MCE)" wrote: > > Greetz, > > On 2.5.34, moving the mouse around (just moving, not clicking) under > an (almost) idle X "almost" reliably freezes my machine if I just do > it long enough. I write "almost" because: > > 1) It happened on 14 out of 15 sessions, sometimes immediately > after logging in. I gave up on the one exception after trying > for more than 5 minutes. > > 2) It might be related to whether there is some background activity. > I have a shell script that forks a lot of stuff in quick succession > and it seems that a lockup is guaranteed if I move my mouse while > that script is running. The script is not a requirement, though. > > Sadly, only the reset button helps and of course nothing useful shows > up in the logs. :-( I tried very hard to reproduce it on a virtual > console, but failed no matter how hard I stressed the box. So X "must" > be part of the problem somehow. > > This is 2.5.34 on a dual Pentium, gcc 2.95, no preempt, AT keyboard > & serial mouse. I never got 2.5.32 and 2.5.33 to compile/boot, so the > problem may not be all that new. 2.5.31 works OK (not fine, but OK). >
Me too. Dual PIII, 2.5.34+localhacks. It's happened a couple of times. The system locks up and the CPU fans go nuts. In X, so no info available.
There are a few locking problems in 2.5.34 which _may_ be fixed now, but they only seem to affect CLONE_THREAD. It would be worth grabbing the latest `gzipped full patch' from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/dwmw2/bk-2.5/ though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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