Xorg 6.9.0 freezes on AMD64 system with nvidia 6200 GPU

[Stuart Kreitman]

Its not clear what part of the system is hanging or looping.

If you kill the offending apps, does the same invocation of Xorg server 
resume operations?
When the screen locks, can you still get movement of the mouse cursor on 
screen, and if so,
does it change its glyph as it crosses window boundaries?

re furthur debugging with abracadabra (ha!) I'm not familiar with the 
debugging tools in your environment.
The system is built with gcc tools, do "man gdb" to find the syntax to 
grab a running process,
Its something like:

$ ps -ef |grep Xorg
$su root
# gdb /usr/X11/bin/Xorg  <pid>
 >  "dumpstack"
 > continue
 (this must be done from the ssh or telnet session)




Robert Gilaard wrote:

>Thanks for the answer,
>
>I am able to kill the Xorg server, but not from the
>same desktop but from another machine in the network.
>I have to log in through ssh and then kill the Xorg
>server process. I was really fast with the process
>list, I have noticed it went up to 99% in the past.
>
>Every app in Gnome I can think of will lead to this
>phenomena (gedit, mozilla, firefox.....)
>The only way for me to NOT see this phenomena, is to
>log in with GDM and NOT USE anaything. But the moment
>I start clicking on stuff, then sooner or later the
>screen locks.
>
>The last part of your message is abracadabra for me:-)
>Could you explain more what I should do with this
>process in order to use gdb,dbx,etc??
>
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