User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: Situation. I did a fresh install of an amd dual core (toshiba satellite laptop) to fedora-9. I have the latest updates, and now have an issue where it appears that the system hangs/freezes/dies based on the movement of the usb mouse. It appears that if I move the mouse, with a few instances of firefox/tsclient running, I can sometimes get the mouse to freeze, with the mouse pointer in the "cross" display. This locks up/freezes the keyboard/mouse system. I'm not sure if the actual system is dead, as it appears that the drive light on the system is still in action. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I have the latest version of the f9 x86_64 kernel, with firefox3. The kernel is 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64. How reproducible: For me, I can fire up a few instances of Firefox3, as well as a VNC/Terminal Server" client. I can then try to move the mouse around, dragging the different windows, and somehow, if I drag the mouce into the upper panel at the top of the display, the mouse doesn't return to the normal "arrow pointer". Instead the mouse is stuck in the cross pointer, and the system freezes/hangs/dies. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: System Freezes/Hangs/No longer works. The mouse stops functioning, the keyboard stops responding. Expected results: Mouse and keyboard should work as usual. Additional info: Let me know what else I can provide. If you give me instructions on what you need, I can get you whatever might help. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Not sure. For me, I can fire up the system, run a few instances of Firefox3, Tsclient, VNC, and then drag the mouse around. At random times, the mouse seems to go into the upper panel, and a window of one of the apps where it then dies, causing the mouse/keyboard to stop functioning. 2. 3. Actual Results: see above... Expected Results: mouse/keyboard should continue to work as normal. I have a fresh install from the basic repos (fedora/livna/updates). I run a few instances of Firefox3, VNC, Terminal Server Client(tsclient) I'm running on a dual core, Toshiba Satellite laptop, 4G mem, basic f9 kernel 2.6.26.5-45, with usb wifi, and usb mouse. I've seen a previous bug/posting that seemed to be simialr, but it appeared to have been closed. The issue is real, it is occuring!!
when this happens, if you press ctrl-alt-f2 (to go to a text console) and then login and type: pkill -f tsclient then press ctrl-alt-f7 (to go back to the previously hung graphical session) does it recover and work again (with the exception of tsclient which you just killed). The issue you described sounds a lot like a stuck "pointer grab", which is an operation that a client can do to prevent the rest of the desktop for getting events from the mouse and keyboard. Do you know where the cross pointer is initiated from? Is it from tsclient?
I think I might be seeing something similar to this in Fedora 10. It seems that when I switch active windows, I will occasionally get a stall that will prevent mouse or keyboard input on any window. If I use a hotkey to open a terminal I can kill the the last process related to the window I was in when the stall occurred,and this frees everything back up. This just started recently when I switched to using metacity from compiz-fusion (because I couldn't get compiz to work correctly with two monitors). Very frustrating.
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