Bug 28533

Summary:	Re: Some X applications freeze the system
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Giorgos Keramidas <keramida>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	greid
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	FreeBSD-gnats-submit
Priority:	Normal
Version:	1.0-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Giorgos Keramidas 2001-06-30 05:20:01 UTC

 On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:35:48AM -0700, G Muthukumar wrote:
 
 > I am experiencing this problem every now and then. I recently
 > installed 4.3-RELEASE on my system (It was running 3.3-RELEASE
 > without any problem). Initially, I had problems with xlockmore. When
 > it was started thru xautolock, it froze my machine (with a colour
 > band displayed on top of the screen at times). I had to power down
 > the system & bring it up again.So I disabled it (I even tried
 > compiling xlockmore from the source code - but no use).
 > 
 > Now I am facing the same problem with xv. Starting xv freezes my
 > machine again.  A funny thing: After powercycling, I find the input
 > file size to be zero.
 > 
 > Please note that these problems did not surface when I was running
 > 3.3-RELEASE on the same machine.
 > 
 > I don't know whether this has anything to do with XFree86 (I am
 > using the one that came with 4.3-RELEASE). I tried disabling moused
 > & usbd too. No improvement.
 
 This could be a problem with an X server locking your console you know.
 
 Do you have some means to access the machine from network when this happens?
 
 Does it respond to pings or to network requests to some of its
 services (telnet, ssh)?
 
 -giorgos

Comment 1 greid freebsd_committer

2001-07-02 19:09:09 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Mailing list message; not a PR

Comment 2 greid freebsd_committer

2001-07-02 19:09:09 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: gnats-admin->greid

Misfiled