[PLUG] Diagnosing Hard Lock-Up

[Mark Roberts]

Kyle,

The "Blaster" screensaver crashes my system every time.  I'm running an
S3 Savage video on Debian Woody (2.4.19).  After disabling that screen
saver no more crashes, also able to get it to crash by running it in
demo mode.  Have also seen references to others having this problem with
this screensaver.  Some sort of bug in XFree 86.

Mark



On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 12:41, Kyle Accardi wrote:
> Okay, it's been twice in two months or so that I've come to find a 
> particulat screensaver halted.  System ignores keyboard altogether,
> and has dropped off the LAN (Destination Host Unreachable).
> 
> Only thing I didn't try was serial port login, but this workstation isn't 
> set up for that--I think.  Anyway, was forced to do a hard reset--thank you 
> ext3.  First thing I did was rpm -e xscreensaver.
> 
> Q: Cannot find any damning evidence in /var/log/messages nor /v/l/secure. 
> Any ideas where I might find a clue.  I thought X kept a log in the user's 
> home, but it's not to be found.
> 
> I really suspect the screensaver, but on the otherhand, how could a 
> screensaver go so wrong as to bring down networking (lock up the kernel?)
> 
> --
> Kyle Accardi
> 
> 
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