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Hello,

On Nov 10, 2007, at 09:51, Frank Wille wrote:

> Michael Lorenz wrote:
>
>>> BTW, seems that the lockup is not  instantly. The last two times I
>>> observed
>>> that it takes 1 or 2 seconds where the mouse-pointer becomes very
>>> slow and
>>> starts jumping, before everything freezes.
>> Hmm, I sometimes see that with some process bombing the kernel with
>> system calls. But that's no deadlock, it just responds very, very
>> slowly.
>
> No, nothing does happen here, even after minutes.

Ok.

>>> But the music keeps playing, which means that the network still  
>>> works
>>> (although I cannot login).
>> Can you reproduce this with something else than playing an audio
>> stream? It looks more like a process running amok than awacs acting
>> up right now.
>
> Usually there is audio involved, but yesterday I experienced my first
> deadlock without audio: I had disconnected the USB keyboard and  
> mouse, then
> reconnected them. Only the mouse was recognized and the keyboard  
> seemed to
> write to the boot console in background. Parts of the upper X11- 
> screen were
> overwritten by it. I killed the gnome-session and restarted the X  
> server.
> Then worked again for some time until the deadlock occurs...

This is strange. When X is running nothing should write to the  
console unless the machine panics.
Which Xserver are you using? And do you by any chance run it from a  
different virtual console than 0?

> But this is probably unrelated.

Maybe, maybe not.

have fun
Michael
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