[ILUG] RE: Bizarre X crash

[Jeremy Smyth]

More info:
Tried the "killall X" suggestion, no difference. Still only appears to
happen when using LICQ. I don't think it's related to temperature, as I've
been religiously watching my CPU usage (using ASLOAD) over the last coupla
nights. It's fairly happy around the 10-20% mark, peaking occasionally with
Netscape doing whatever it does.

Aaargh.

/jer
(getting upset at the amount of fscking my system is doing, and the damage
being done to my uptime)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jeremy Smyth 
> Sent:	Thursday, January 13, 2000 2:07 PM
> To:	'ilug at linux.ie'
> Subject:	Bizarre X crash
> 
> Get this: Using system, it hangs. No mouse response, no KBD response.
> NumLock/CapsLock don't do anything to the lights. Occasional flashes on
> the HDD light. Dead in the water.
> 
> BUT, can telnet in (eth) with no probs. Lynx from the remote machine still
> lets you browse over ppp0, etc. top says X is running at 98%. Kill X,
> nothing happens on the local console, still shows X. In fact, kill all
> processes in my username, still same. 
> 
> Killed all I could one by one, synced a few times, umount -r all the
> partitions except root, and did a shutdown -r. Got the beep and the
> message on the telnet, but only a beep on the server. ps showed init level
> 6. All looks well. And stays just there for many more minutes. Did another
> shutdown -r, and lo and behold, the server resets, no shutdown, just
> straight back to the BIOS screen.
> 
> Grrrrr.
> 
> Background: RHL 5.2, Afterstep, running fine until last night, when I
> reinstalled LICQ 0.71 to get it working after a failed attempt earlier
> this week. This involved a major tidy-up, getting rid of qt2.0.1, qt2.1.0,
> and qt2.0.2 before reinstalling 2.0.2, cleaning out the old LICQ and
> reinstalling, etc. Got it running, happy, chatting, etc, and then the X
> hang.
> 
> I blame LICQ.
> 
> Happened three times in total. It's an issue. Anyone any ideas???
> 
> Lemons etc,
> /jer