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Pechorin

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From: Belgrade

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 28

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(SOLVED) Keyboard lights go on and off and then Xorg crashes

Strangest thing happened when I turned on my computer this morning:

As I was doing my usual business (only Firefox running on top of Gnome), keyboard LEDs started going on and off (e.g. scroll lock and caps lock turn on, num lock off, then I press num lock, and they go off, and then one of them reappears again, etc - no pattern), and then Xorg just crashed.

I'm running the latest kernel with latest nvidia drivers.

This is what Xorg's log shows:

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x45a8d8]
1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x61a19) [0x461a19]
2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f677c98e000+0xee80) [0x7f677c99ce80]
3: /lib/libc.so.6 (__select+0x13) [0x7f677bce34e3]
4: /usr/bin/Xorg (WaitForSomething+0x1ba) [0x45814a]
5: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x45d72) [0x445d72]
6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x219ec) [0x4219ec]
7: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f677bc39b6d]
8: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x21599) [0x421599]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 3 (Quit). Server aborting

The entire xorg log is here: http://pastebin.ca/1823592

After the fact, everything seemed to be working fine again. Xorg restarted and keyboard was behaving.

Any ideas what this could be? It never happened before...

Last edited by Pechorin (2010-03-09 09:45:09)

Pechorin

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From: Belgrade

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 28

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Re: (SOLVED) Keyboard lights go on and off and then Xorg crashes

I'm not really sure, but it seems that vmware workstation + evdev was the culprit.

I uninstalled Vmware Workstation and everything seems to be back to normal. I couldn't bother to check which modules were loaded and how was this confusing to Xorg, but it's "solved" now.