Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 103030
rapid mouse movement causes X server crash
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:57:07 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 Description of problem: Rapid movement of mouse around screen, illustrated by dragging a window like an xterm around the screen rapidly (rapid being something you might do routinely, not just something you would try to break the server) results in X server crashing (see URL). Does not crash with slow mouse movement. Not sure if related, but rapid mouse movement between two windows results in infinite loop with control switching a couple of times per second between both windows. This latter problem can be cured by right-clicking on either of the window borders to select one or the other - does not cause server crash. URL shows specific X server diag output from Toshiba 1555CDS laptop. Have tried default "accel" and "noaccel" options, same results. NOTE: am using same window manager and personal (non-XF86Config) files on other computers (sharing home directories) and am not experiencing same problem, but those computers have totally different video cards. Other cards are C&T and older S3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86-4.3.0-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. startx 2. bring up xterm or similar window 3. drag xterm around screen Actual Results: X server crashes, control returns to text terminal. Expected Results: Window should move around screen. Additional info: Used same laptop with RH 6.x through all versions of 7.x, no problem. Also used 8.0, don't think this problem occured but only used for short time before upgrading to 9.
You may want to try a later version of XFree86 (from Rawhide, for example) to see if your bug has already been wiped out by a later revision.
Please attach X server log and config file from when the problem occurs. If it occurs on multiple systems or with multiple video hardware, and you can provide individual configs and logs, please attach all of them well labeled to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using bugzilla's file attachment feature below.
Reassigning to proper component (XFree86). Note that XFree86-Servers-3.3.6, which this was filed against, last appeared in Red Hat Linux 7.3. Just a note...
The files are in http://tibbitts.freeshell.org/tech/XF86Config http://tibbitts.freeshell.org/tech/XFree86.0.log I saw that the version I reported was wrong but it was the only choice presented in the form as far as I could tell. This was the first time I'd tried the java-based interface, probably I just did something wrong. Anyway thanks for fixing it.
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Created attachment 94041 [details] Toshiba 1555 Satellite config
Created attachment 94042 [details] result of termination of x server on toshiba 1555
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from: If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates.