Description of problem: When launching latest gnome-terminal on Red Hat 8.0 with the Intel i810 drivers, the X server virtually locks up, consuming 99+% of CPU. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Xfree 4.2.0 Xft 2.1-0 vte 0.10.25 (stock vte from RH8 works fine, but none of the test 0.10.x series works) gnome-terminal 2.2.1 How reproducible: Utterly, on two separate machines. There is also one report that this occurs with nvidia drivers as well. [The owner of that box had a 117 day uptime, he was bitter. ;) Steps to Reproduce: 1. install latest vte (from Ximian packages, but not patched) on machine with i810 card 2. launch gnome-terminal Actual results: Machine appears to hang. With patience, you can log in via ssh, note that top reports X as consuming 99+% CPU, and kill X. Expected results: An aa'd and i18n aware terminal comes up, and X does, um, not suck. :) Additional info: None that I'm aware of, but I'm just reporting the bug on behalf of the people who reported it to me internally.
I would point the folks having the problem to go to the URL to the bug report and attach their X Config files and log files so they can be looked at and get a start on it.
Created attachment 90429 [details] XF86Config on one affected machine XF86Config as requested.
Created attachment 90430 [details] X log on one affected machine. X log file as requested.
XFree86-Servers doesn't exist. Reassigning to XFree86.
Reopening, as the log was provided. Um. Or, I'd like to, but it's non-obvious how to reopen without also taking assignment. Going to try something here, sorry about the spam...
Does this problem occur in Red Hat Linux 9?
Well, I don't really have Red Hat Linux 9 on this box, but I can fake it. I have a tarball I made of an install on another machine, and I can untar it into a directory on this box, chroot into the directory, and try things from there. So on something-akin-to-rhl9-except-for-the-kernel-and-some-daemons-etc, the X server no longer hangs, but gnome-terminal is unresponsive. There's a blinking solid black cursor in the upper left, but I never get a shell prompt. xterm works fine. I'm not doing any hardware acceleration, per redhat-config-xfree86, so the rhl8.0 kernel shouldn't make a difference, I'm assuming...
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. We encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Fedora Core (http://fedora.redhat.com). 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.