Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 110219
X crashes and mouse stops working.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:33 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 Description of problem: Xfree will crash, the screen flashes blank for a couple of seconds, and then will not come back on until I press a key. When this happens the mouse stops working. Only way to fix that I have found is to reboot. This is happening intermitently, sometimes it will happen whilst in GDM and not having touched the computer yet. Othertimes it will happen whilst doing any type of work. It has happened also whilst logged in and not at the computer. If you can advise me how to, I can try to get some sort of feedback in the form of debug output or something. I was thinking this could also be a Kernel/driver issue but not sure. I'm using a Logitech USB mouse. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" EndSection Using radeon 7500. Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "radeon" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "ATI Radeon 7000" EndSection Note: X does not completely crash as it us still usable after the blank screen, but mouse fails to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): XFree86-4.3.0-42 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot computer 2.Wait 3. Actual Results: Screen blanks, and mouse fails to respond. Additional info: I can not find any way to reproduce this on demand :(
I have since found a little bit of output on some occasions when this occurs. I get the following ouput sometimes: --Start-- Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Error: Can't open display :0.0 xscreensaver: 07:21:24: 0: child pid 7273 (anemone) exited abnormally (code 1) --End-- Of course, start and end arent there, but the rest sure is. Also, I can recreate this quite often if I leave the computer at the login GDM screen and wait for a while after the screen switches blank.
I've recently changed from my USB mouse to a PS2 mouse as I was recieving some USB related error messages when this bug occurs. Now that I am on a ps2 mouse the screen blanking still happens, however the mouse continues to work. Furthermore, I think this bug is somehow related to XScreensaver as sometimes when the described behaviour occurs the screen saver does start for a brief time. I'm changing the priority to high as the system is basially unusable with the bug present. I recently converted my father to Fedora and this would not have been possible if his system had the same issues.
I have an error SIMILAR to this where the screen blacks out [seems to turn off all output to the monitor] after a certain period of time. I need to either restart the computer to regain functionality or SOMETIMES i can Ctrl-Alt-F7 or F8 and it will switch back into the X session I had been running. Otherwise Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesnt even bring up the shell, Ctrl-0Alt-Backspace doesnt restart X, and the keyboard seems to not function [i know this because no keyboard lights go on for Num/Caps lock]. It occurs after my installation of FC2 x86_64 today and I origianlly thought it may be the wrong monitor that I specificed, but I returned to generic and it still occurs. I am running a PCI ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon [i believe 7000 series] on a FC2 AMD Athlon64 system with x86_64.
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.