Re: xterms freezing on 2.6.31-rc2 (was Re: [regression] Re:2.6.31-rc2: X stop accepting keystrokes?)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Jul 23 2009 - 14:51:46 EST


On Fri 2009-07-17 15:13:41, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > > > ...and they seem to be slightly different crashes. Once keyboard was
> > > > dead but mouse worked, second time keyboard still worked but xterms
> > > > kept locking up. I managed to type dmesg into one of them, but that
> > > > xterm hung in middle of dump :-(.
> > >
> > > I guess that both keyboard and mouse are PS/2 connected, right?
> >
> > Thinkpad internal keyboard/mouse, yes.
> >
> > > Any possibility to capture serial console output?
> >
> > I managed to get dmesg via magic sysrq at some point. I got some
> > softlockup messages and processes seemed to hang.
>
> Softlockup in which area?
>
> Are you able to ssh into the machine? Where do the xterms hang?
> (/proc/<pid>/stack)

I have not seen it for a while with new kernel, so I assume problem is gone.
Pavel

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