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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020212 Description of problem: A few weeks back, I upgraded to RH's XFree86 4.1.0-15. Ever since then, I've experienced random lockups. X doesn't crash, but locks up completely: no more activity on the screen, mouse pointer doesn't move anymore, not responsive to keyboard (not even ctrl-all-backspace). The only way out is a hard reset of the system. I don't have any other machines connected to this machine, so I can't log in remotely to find out if the kernel is still running fine, but I think it's most likely that it is X that locks up, not the kernel: I defintely don't see any kernel messages in /var/log/messages to indicate that. Up till two weeks ago, I was using NVidia's proprietary drivers. Since getting the lockups, I've switched to XFree86's own nvidia driver, but the problem remains. Note: I've never had _any_ problems with X locking up prior to upgrading to XFree86 4.1.0-15. The system had been running fine ever since installing RH7.2 when it came out. I'll post a copy of the XFree86.0.log, but it doesn't really show any problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: The problem is very intermittent: sometimes it doesn't happen for days, then it happens three times in one day. Additional info:
Created attachment 48002 [details] Here's a copy of the X logfile after a lockup
Run X in runlevel 3 if not doing so already, then do the following: startx &> x.log After it crashes, attach x.log, XFree86.0.log, XF86Config-4, /var/log/messages to the report, as well as the output of: lsmod uname -a
Just to keep you posted: after discussing this with several people, I disabled the gnome event sounds. Since then, I haven't had a single re-occurance of this crash. Apparently, there may be a conflict between the video card (GeForce) and the audio card (SB Live).
Closing bug NOTABUG, sounds like a hardware issue.