> if so, can you reproduce this with a vanilla X
> server? I just vt-switched about 50 times with 1.12.99.902 but it doesn't
> happen here.
Never happened for me while switching VT. although I do not do that regularly... ok -- switched to VT 1 and back (Ctrl-Alt-1 and then randomly Alt-left/right till reaching X) quite a few times (around 10) -- no problem. With suspend I think I would have experienced it by then. Also, may be of relevance:
if X crashes during suspend and I end up again at the kdm login prompt -- I would still have my 'half-moon' light blinking until I switch to e.g. VT 1 -- then it would finally suspend.
> What desktop environment is this?
happened originally with KDE4 + awesome... now it is XFCE + awesome -- the same story
> something is trying to change the property
> after the VT switch, so I'd need a similar setup here.
my ~/.xsession has
awesome &
sleep 3
xfce4-session
> Finally, if you can reproduce it easily, can you try running X through valgrind
> to see if you get any invalid writes?
It is reproducible on around 5-10th occasion on random -- never yet tried to cause it on purpose -- I thought to give it excessive troubleshooting one day... if I get a moment I will run it through valgrind... although if it is some kind of a race condition between threads, it might not get triggered
(In reply to comment #3)
> Does debian carry any patches?
yes. See patch-tracker. debian. org/package/ xorg-server/ 2:1.12. 3-1
http://
for details
> if so, can you reproduce this with a vanilla X
> server? I just vt-switched about 50 times with 1.12.99.902 but it doesn't
> happen here.
Never happened for me while switching VT. although I do not do that regularly... ok -- switched to VT 1 and back (Ctrl-Alt-1 and then randomly Alt-left/right till reaching X) quite a few times (around 10) -- no problem. With suspend I think I would have experienced it by then. Also, may be of relevance:
if X crashes during suspend and I end up again at the kdm login prompt -- I would still have my 'half-moon' light blinking until I switch to e.g. VT 1 -- then it would finally suspend.
> What desktop environment is this?
happened originally with KDE4 + awesome... now it is XFCE + awesome -- the same story
> something is trying to change the property
> after the VT switch, so I'd need a similar setup here.
my ~/.xsession has
awesome &
sleep 3
xfce4-session
> Finally, if you can reproduce it easily, can you try running X through valgrind
> to see if you get any invalid writes?
It is reproducible on around 5-10th occasion on random -- never yet tried to cause it on purpose -- I thought to give it excessive troubleshooting one day... if I get a moment I will run it through valgrind... although if it is some kind of a race condition between threads, it might not get triggered