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#1 2008-01-09 03:20:50

ardzeii
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Registered: 2007-11-23
Posts: 4

Xorg freezes after resume from standby (on latest xorg update)

Hi all,

I'm not really quite sure who the upgrade culprit is, since my last Xorg update was still last December 30. The symptoms started appearing around 2 days ago, probably after my last full system upgrade. After I resume the computer from standby/display suspend/display power off (or whatever stage it has already reached), my Xorg stops from receiving any input, and freezes completely, though I can still use the inputs (keyboard and mouse). Switching to a virtual terminal works fine, and running 'top' would show that Xorg is consuming around 70-80% of CPU usage. Currently, I have no other workaround than doing an X reset.

Here's a snip of the pacman log from my last few xorg updates:

[raj@schildkrot ~]$ cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep 2007-12 | grep xorg
[2007-12-04 18:51] upgraded xorg-server (1.4-5 -> 1.4-6)
[2007-12-17 23:25] upgraded xorg-server (1.4-6 -> 1.4.0.90-1)
[2007-12-17 23:25] upgraded xorg-xinit (1.0.7-1 -> 1.0.7-2)
[2007-12-30 00:48] upgraded xorg-server (1.4.0.90-1 -> 1.4.0.90-3)
[2007-12-30 00:52] upgraded xorg-xauth (1.0.1-1 -> 1.0.2-1)

And here's my log of what packages were recently upgraded in my last system upgrade:

[raj@schildkrot ~]$ cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep 2008
[2008-01-04 02:09] installed timidity++ (2.13.2-5)
[2008-01-06 15:37] synchronizing package lists
[2008-01-06 15:38] starting full system upgrade
[2008-01-06 16:25] removed libdts (0.0.2-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] installed libdca (0.0.5-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded cairo (1.4.12-1 -> 1.4.12-2)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded diffutils (2.8.1-4 -> 2.8.1-5)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded file (4.21-3 -> 4.23-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded freeglut (2.4.0-2 -> 2.4.0-3)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded glib (1.2.10-6 -> 1.2.10-7)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded gtk (1.2.10-7 -> 1.2.10-8)
[2008-01-06 16:25] installed libstroke (0.5.1-2)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded fvwm (2.4.20-1 -> 2.4.20-2)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded gnupg (1.4.7-3 -> 1.4.8-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded icewm (1.2.33-1 -> 1.2.35-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded imagemagick (6.3.7.0-1 -> 6.3.7.9-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded intltool (0.36.3-1 -> 0.37.0-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded lftp (3.6.1-1 -> 3.6.2-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded libarchive (2.4.0-2 -> 2.4.11-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded libdownload (1.1-4 -> 1.3-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded libgpg-error (1.5-3 -> 1.6-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded libgcrypt (1.2.4-3 -> 1.4.0-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded libwpd (0.8.11-1 -> 0.8.13-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] >>> to control the lm_sensors daemon type
[2008-01-06 16:25] >>> "/etc/rc.d/sensors start|stop|restart"
[2008-01-06 16:25] >>> --------------------------------------
[2008-01-06 16:25] >>> before you can use the fancontrol daemon
[2008-01-06 16:25] >>> first create a fancontrol config file, use "pwmconfig"
[2008-01-06 16:25] >>> then type "/etc/rc.d/fancontrol start|stop|restart"
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded lm_sensors (3.0.0-1 -> 3.0.0-3)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded man (1.6e-4 -> 1.6f-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded man-pages (2.68-1 -> 2.74-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] warning: /etc/nanorc installed as /etc/nanorc.pacnew
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded nano (2.0.6-4 -> 2.0.7-1)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded nmap (4.22SOC8-1 -> 4.52-2)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded ntp (4.2.4p4-3 -> 4.2.4p4-4)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded postgresql (8.2.5-1 -> 8.2.5-2)
[2008-01-06 16:25] upgraded tzdata (2007j-2 -> 2007k-1)

I'm really lost here as to which package is the culprit, that's why I'm also having a hard time picking which packages and dependencies to rollback.

Thank you very much!


[UPDATE 1] Turning off the standby and everything else doesn't really help, as I notice X also freezes after a long period of inactivity (not sure how long, but after I woke up X already froze sad )
I'm using a Radeon card (fglrx/catalyst) btw, if that helps...

Last edited by ardzeii (2008-01-09 03:22:39)

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#2 2008-01-09 03:53:34

fwojciec
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Registered: 2007-05-20
Posts: 1,411

Re: Xorg freezes after resume from standby (on latest xorg update)

I don't know if this is going to help since both my computers have nvidia cards, but I've noticed recently that my laptop wouldn't wake up if I had xcompmgr running -- this was definitely something that didn't cause problems in the past.  In other words - try disabling xcompmgr (or other compositing manager you might have) before suspending and see if that helps.

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#3 2008-01-09 03:59:36

ardzeii
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Registered: 2007-11-23
Posts: 4

Re: Xorg freezes after resume from standby (on latest xorg update)

Thank you, fwojciec! I'll disable xcompmgr and leave the computer for ~1-2 hrs, then report back again to see if that helps.

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#4 2008-01-09 13:57:07

ardzeii
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Registered: 2007-11-23
Posts: 4

Re: Xorg freezes after resume from standby (on latest xorg update)

I guess disabling xcompmgr (temporarily, at least until maybe the next xcompmgr update) does the job fine. Thanks for the tip, fwojciec!

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#5 2008-01-10 03:17:42

ardzeii
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Registered: 2007-11-23
Posts: 4

Re: Xorg freezes after resume from standby (on latest xorg update)

I woke up today to find my sytem frozen yet again. Looks like the xcompmgr-disabling trick wasn't enough. It's not really a big deal (since it's easy to reset X anyway), but it's pretty annoying...

I don't know if this helps, but the first thing I did was to switch desktops through the pager (I'm using KDE btw)...

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