Re: 2.6.14 X spinning in the kernel

Pasi Savolainen
2005-11-16T15:32:16Z

* Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>:
> Hi,
>
> My 2-cpu EM64T machine started showing this problem again on 2.6.14.
> On some reboots, X seems to spin in the kernel forever.
>
> sysrq-t output shows nothing.
>
> X R running task 0 3607 3589 3903
> (L-TLB)
>
> top shows:
> 3607 root 25 0 0 0 0 R 99.1 0.0 262:04.69 X

I get something like than on 2xAthlon, but kernel 2.6.12 (some debian
version, AFAIK slightly patched). In my case XOrg (6.8.2 -> 6.9-rc)
doesn't hang but continues to work, I notice other hung process from
rising load.
Video card is Radeon 9200. When I restart X (logout to gdm), hung
process disappears.

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