Serious problem with xorg - keyboard and mouse locks all the time.

Jacek Poplawski · 2007-09-30 12:40:52

In the last week I've notices serious problems with xorg.
After some event, I am not sure which one, keyboard stops responding.
Mouse cursor works, but I can't click on anything.
I can't switch to text console.
But I can kill xorg with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE.
Have you noticed something similiar?

I use xfce4, [testing] repository.

iphitus · 2007-09-30 13:59:52

Jacek Poplawski wrote:

In the last week I've notices serious problems with xorg.
After some event, I am not sure which one, keyboard stops responding.
Mouse cursor works, but I can't click on anything.
I can't switch to text console.
But I can kill xorg with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE.
Have you noticed something similiar?
I use xfce4, [testing] repository.

I had that a few days ago, couldn't reproduce it. I was also running xfce4. I havn't had it today and im running xfdesktop+xfce-mcs-manager+pekwm+xfce4-panel... so it may have been xfwm4.

James

Jacek Poplawski · 2007-09-30 17:45:54

What kind of applications you were using? Do you remember? Firefox? What else?

iphitus · 2007-09-30 22:30:20

Jacek Poplawski wrote:

What kind of applications you were using? Do you remember? Firefox? What else?

Opera. OOo, urxvt. Not firefox, though I tried using firefox instead of opera -- suspecting it was opera -- but it happened then too. Even happened once shortly after login.

I've used all three apps extensively since ditching going to the aforementioned xfdesktop+xfce-mcs-manager+pekwm+xfce4-panel setup and havn't had a problem. Kill xfwm4 and see how you go.

James

Last edited by iphitus (2007-09-30 22:33:22)

iphitus · 2007-10-01 03:00:21

Alright, had it again. Was using mozplugger (openoffice document loaded in browser) when it happened, and was first time I'd used mozplugger since dropping xfwm4. You using mozplugger or is this a coincidence?

Jacek Poplawski · 2007-10-01 08:39:16

I don't know what mozplugger is.
It happens few times each evening, so this is really serious issue.
However, I can't reproduce it to submit a bug report.

iphitus · 2007-10-01 09:45:42

Jacek Poplawski wrote:

I don't know what mozplugger is.
It happens few times each evening, so this is really serious issue.
However, I can't reproduce it to submit a bug report.

mozplugger allows you to have openoffice/evince/mplayer other apps, embedded within firefox/mozilla/opera.

James

iphitus · 2007-10-01 10:17:53

Take a look on arch-dev-public, seems others have had it too. Common is xfce4 and testing... but that could be coincidental. I'm running straight pekwm now to see if i can eliminate it.

Jacek Poplawski · 2007-10-01 14:17:05

Thanks, I read the thread.
It's not an nVidia issue, because I use ATI Radeon with open source driver (on my home computer).
However, this problem never happen on xfce4+testing+Beryl+Intel (that's the computer I use at work).
It's also not related to mplayer.

oseb · 2007-10-02 01:55:48

I have same problem. I am using xfce4 + xf86-video-ati driver with testing repo. it ocurres randomly. only works mouse, but can't any click. xorg 7.3 bug?

sorry poor my english.

shen · 2007-10-03 04:17:08

Had the same issue today using XFCE4 stock nothing special using xorg and intel driver from testing..I start xfce via startx using xinitrc exec startxfce4 and it randomly locks at various points.

AndyRTR · 2007-10-03 09:33:00

i've applied a patch to the 64bit xfwm4 package that should solve the locking. it should hit the mirrors soon. i686 will follow a bit later. you can build it from cvs if you don't want to wait.

shen · 2007-10-03 13:45:08

I'll build this locally in a bit and test it out. Last night XFCE locked within minutes of booting up.

shen · 2007-10-03 15:12:03

AndyRTR wrote:

i've applied a patch to the 64bit xfwm4 package that should solve the locking. it should hit the mirrors soon. i686 will follow a bit later. you can build it from cvs if you don't want to wait.

I rebuilt the xfwm package usig your patch and it worked perfectly so far. Left the laptop on while I ran to the store and no lockups. Thanks for the patch.

Jacek Poplawski · 2007-10-03 15:43:41

When can we expect i686 binary?

AndyRTR · 2007-10-03 19:53:21

it should be on the way to the mirrors now.

shen · 2007-10-04 17:17:48

AndyRTR wrote:

it should be on the way to the mirrors now.

Good deal thanks a ton for getting this solved.

Jacek Poplawski · 2007-10-05 19:09:05

Thanks, it works correctly now.

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