Bug 13318

Summary:	X locked up.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Sam Varshavchik <mrsam>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	notting
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Description Sam Varshavchik 2000-07-01 22:25:51 UTC

Came back after being away from the machine for an hour, X was locked up,
and eating CPU time.

strace of the X process:

[ ... ]

sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [CHLD])
--- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) ---
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [CHLD])
--- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) ---
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [CHLD])
--- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) ---
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [CHLD])
--- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) ---
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [CHLD])
--- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) ---
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [CHLD])
--- SIGVTALRM (Virtual timer expired) ---

[ ... ]

... ad infinitum.

Had to kill -9 it.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-07-03 05:11:48 UTC

Was any screensaver running (if so , which one?)

Comment 2 Sam Varshavchik 2000-07-03 18:45:32 UTC

Yes, it most probably was -- the machine was left alone for an extended period
of time.  I couldn't tell which particular screensaver was running.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2000-07-03 22:52:37 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13054 ***