Re: 2.5.34 randomly freezes under X (seems input related)

Andrew Morton
2002-09-11T02:08:50Z

"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.