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SimonLarsen

Member

From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2009-11-06

Posts: 11

Weird almost random freezes when pressing enter

I've just installed Arch on my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop and I'm experiencing A LOT of system freezes.
I've been running Ubuntu on this machine without this happening so it's probably not a hardware thing.

The freezes seem somewhat random but it seems like they always occur after pressing "Enter.",
no matter if I do it in an xterm, gnome-terminal, gedit, vim or conkeror.
It's not excluded to textfields either, as it also happens when I hit enter to confirm an url in my browser.
I've tried both GNOME and Awesome without any difference.
It doesn't happen when I'm in a tty-console (guess how I'm writing this) so it seems to be X-related.

When it locks up I have to shut it down with the power button. Ctrl+Alt+1-9 doesn't work, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace doesn't either,
and the REISUB-thingy is no use.

Edit: I can also confirm that if I'm listening to music while it freezes, the music keeps playing.

I've checked my Xorg.0.log.old and found this:

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x809bdab]
1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x520f5) [0x809a0f5]
2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb773740c]
3: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x272a0) [0x806f2a0]
4: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x1a685) [0x8062685]
5: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb736db86]
6: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x8048000+0x1a271) [0x8062271]

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

Various info:

uname -a: Linux simon-laptop 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 10 19:48:17 CET 2009 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2130 @ 1.86GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

rc.conf:

LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Copenhagen"
KEYMAP="dk"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(!b43 !pcspkr)

# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

HOSTNAME="simon-laptop"

INTERFACES=()

gateway="default gw 192.168.1.0"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network dbus hal netfs crond gdm wicd)

Last edited by SimonLarsen (2009-12-28 15:07:30)

Woofie

Member

From: RK, Czech Rep.

Registered: 2009-12-28

Posts: 83

Re: Weird almost random freezes when pressing enter

Hi I have Inspiron 6400 too and use Gnome as you, but i didn't met with this problem. Have you try downgrade xorg?

Last edited by Woofie (2009-12-28 16:33:15)

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Sorry for my english. It's not my native language..

SimonLarsen

Member

From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2009-11-06

Posts: 11

Re: Weird almost random freezes when pressing enter

I just completely reinstalled Arch again  and the problem seems to be fixed.
Let's just hope it doesn't come back again.