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FS#70420 - Freezes on an External Monitor (Un)Plugging

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Daniel Bershatsky (daskol) - Monday, 12 April 2021, 12:09 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Thursday, 15 April 2021, 11:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Laurent Carlier (lordheavy)
Christian Hesse (eworm)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

System freezes as an external monitor plugged or unplugged. It shows a rather strange behaviour since terminal enumlator (urxvt) throws SIGSEGV.

Additional info:

* package version(s)
Current system configuration at the moment as follows. The issue has been observed for two months.
```
$ uname -a
Linux lolita 5.11.11-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:10:17 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ pacman -Ss rxvt-unicode
community/rxvt-unicode 9.22-10 [installed]
community/rxvt-unicode-terminfo 9.22-10 [installed]
```

* config and/or log files etc.
See output of `journalctl -b 0` at the moment of plugging in the attachments.

Steps to reproduce:

Plug (or unplug if an external monitor is not connected) an external monitor.
   journalctl.log (3.2 KiB)
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Thursday, 15 April 2021, 11:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  5.11.13-arch1-1
Comment by Daniel Bershatsky (daskol) - Thursday, 15 April 2021, 07:59 GMT
It looks like the issue fixed in the latest kernel patches. No freezes occur.
```
$ uname -a
Linux lolita 5.11.13-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat, 10 Apr 2021 20:47:14 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
```

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