FS#8739 : Mysterious lockups after core update

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FS#8739 - Mysterious lockups after core update

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Philip Nilsson (leffe) - Thursday, 22 November 2007, 21:58 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 23 November 2007, 16:54 GMT

Task Type	Bug Report
Category	Packages: Core
Status	Closed
Assigned To	No-one
Architecture	i686
Severity	High
Priority	Normal
Reported Version	2007.08-2
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	0
Private	No

Details

Since the core update I have been experiencing some odd lockups.

Running for example winecfg results in a lockup before the window appears, running OpenArena results in a lockup before the resolution changes.

* Keyboard becomes largely unresponsive (with the exception of SysRq-combinations).
* Mouse works sometimes, and might even change the pointer as you move it over different elements of the window manager... for a short while at least.
* No response to pings during lockups.
* Ctrl-Alt-Delete works after setting keyboard to XLATE mode; doesn't appear to unmount disks properly though.

I tried running winecfg in strace, which stopped printing during an ioctl. However, the system might not have crashed that time as I managed to enter keys in my xterm again after syncing and remounting disks read-only.

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Closed by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Friday, 23 November 2007, 16:54 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed