Re: Mysterious X problem(s)...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:39:51 +0000 (GMT)


> Symptoms: Popup menus completely hosing the system. No oops log, no
> keyboard, no process switching, complete lockup. Midis hang, mouse quits,
> keyboard quits. Occurs under UP 2.0.35, 2.0.36, and SMP 2.1.131ac9.

Report X problems to the XFree6 people. If you have XFree 86 3.3.2 then
update to 3.3.3 and check you can reproduce the problem first.

> I have not had the machine die or misbehave at the console, so this may be
> an X problem. However, the fact that the machine gets completely hosed
> without any error logging seems to suggest that it might be something
> deeper.

No, the Xserver is completely priviledged, it can vandalise your machine
just as well as any kernel subsystem.

Alan

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