Bug 450517 - Total system freeze when coming out of screensaver
Summary: Total system freeze when coming out of screensaver
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kdebase
Version: 8
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-06-09 11:48 UTC by Tim Wegener
Modified: 2018-04-11 07:17 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-01-09 06:34:59 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Xorg log from session that froze (41.23 KB, text/plain)
2008-06-09 11:49 UTC, Tim Wegener
no flags Details

Description Tim Wegener 2008-06-09 11:48:51 UTC
Description of problem:
I am running KDE. The screensaver was on due to idle (Flux GL screensaver). When
I pressed a key the system completely froze. It did not respond to ctrl-alt-f1
,ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-del. I had to turn it off and on again. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-44.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.1.1-7.fc8
kdebase-3.5.9-7.fc8
kernel-2.6.25.4-10.fc8

$ rpm -qa |grep -i save
libXScrnSaver-1.1.2-3.fc8
kpowersave-0.7.3-3.fc8

How reproducible:
Intermittent. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set screensaver to Flux (GL) in KDE Control Center
2. Wait for screensaver to kick in.
3. Press a key to return to session.
  
Actual results:
The screensaver froze (a password prompt was not issued).
Normally this works, but just now it froze my system completely. 

Expected results:
Prompt for password to unlock screensaver. 

Additional info:
HP 6710b laptop with Intel GM965 chipset and X3100 integrated graphics. 1 GB RAM.

Comment 1 Tim Wegener 2008-06-09 11:49:59 UTC
Created attachment 308677 [details]
Xorg log from session that froze

Comment 2 Tim Wegener 2008-06-09 11:53:16 UTC
kdeartwork-3.5.9-1.fc8


Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2008-06-10 09:14:57 UTC
Do you have by chance another computer, so you could find out whether really the
computer is dead, or just xorg? Or if you would be able and willing to
investigate a little bit more with recipes on
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging it
would be awesome.

Comment 4 Tim Wegener 2008-06-15 14:49:06 UTC
It happened again. I ssh'd in and found that the screensaver process (can't
remember exact process name, something .kss) was using 100% CPU). I killed the
process from the remote machine and then system came back. 


Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2008-06-15 19:17:42 UTC
OK, then (surprisingly ;)) Xorg is not to be blamed in this case, reassigning
back to KDE.

Comment 6 Than Ngo 2008-06-17 15:54:41 UTC
could you please try other openGL apps (none KDE apps) and see if you have the
same problem?

Thanks

Comment 7 Tim Wegener 2008-06-18 16:37:10 UTC
Do you mean openGL screensavers, or just apps in general?

foobillard, quake3, tremulous, machineball, supertuxkart all seem to work fine
without crashing. 

I have had problems with extremetuxracer crashing X; see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448278


Comment 8 Tim Wegener 2008-06-25 14:23:55 UTC
Had exactly the same problem with the Solar Winds screen saver.


Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 10:50:33 UTC
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Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 06:34:59 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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