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X freezes when closing window

Since the incedent described in this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...57#post3890657

X just freezes whenever I close a window, I have to kill X when that happens. For some reason it doesn't do that in TWM, though.

What should I do? I hope this gets fixed quick because I don't even have a decent desktop any more! :(

What is in

Code:

/var/log/Xorg.*.log

?
(It'll probably be Xorg.0.log, depending on how many X sessions you're running and the one thats got the problem)

Here it is (I found it in /var/log, had to append ".txt" for the forum to let it through).

EDIT: Wanted to say that this issue hasn't happened since I booted in the morning, because I am using TWM (it does not seem to suffer this problem). I am not sure if this means it is not in the log.

Is there an old one there from when X last cacked it's self?

What do you mean "an old one"?

There was a file called "Xorg.0.log.old" there, though.

Well you'll be able to compare the last edited time against roughly when the error last occurred, but yeah, try the .old one; ought to be the right one.

(If not you have the fun task of replicating the error to provide the logs, which is a pain for you)

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamescondron (Post 3891333)

I don't remember the time when it happened yesterday, but I still provided the old log.

It is actually not that hard to replicate the glitch, it's just that I'll have to close all my windows.

I just have to do this:

Quit X.
Run "xinit /usr/bin/pekwm"
Launch an application that creates a window.
Close the window.
Watch X freeze to a halt.
Go to another VT
Kill X
Run "xinit /usr/bin/twm"
Report back here

Well, there is nothing in X that would suggest this, or at least that I can tell. No clear error.

I'm sorry to say you may have to replicate this and show us faillog and, if different, lastlog. (Both in that dir)

EDIT:
What happens when you use the Stable X server? You may just have found a bug that wants reporting, is all

I decided to replicate the glitch. I repeated the steps I described above and now I'll give you the log file:

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamescondron (Post 3891348)

I was just using the X server form the Arch Linux repository. Maybe it is a bug.

The funny thing is that this glitch happens in PekWM and Xfwm4, but not in TWM.

Sorry, nothing there. What is in faillog and lastlog?

But also, and yes I did the annoying 'edit post instead of posting new', does this happen on the stable version of X?

Oh, you answered it ;)

Yeah, fill out a bug report and try back a version or so to the Stable if you can

lastlog was too big for the forum, so I compressed it with gzip.

Remember to remove the "txt", this is not a text file, it's a gzip file!

The "txt" is for the forum to allow it.

Now I need to figure out if it's possible to downgrade using pacman (Arch's package manager).

Anyway, these are all the xorg packages I have installed:

Code:

$ pacman -Qs xorg

local/xf86-input-evdev 2.3.2-1 (xorg-input-drivers)

    X.org evdev input driver

local/xf86-input-keyboard 1.4.0-1 (xorg-input-drivers)

    X.Org keyboard input driver

local/xf86-input-mouse 1.5.0-1 (xorg-input-drivers)

    X.org mouse input driver

local/xf86-video-ati 6.12.4-3 (xorg-video-drivers)

    X.org ati video driver

local/xf86-video-radeonhd 1.3.0-1 (xorg-video-drivers)

    Experimental Radeon HD video driver for r500 and r600 ATI cards

local/xf86-video-vesa 2.2.1-1 (xorg xorg-video-drivers)

    X.org vesa video driver

local/xorg-apps 7.5-3

    Various X.Org applications

local/xorg-docs 1.5-1 (xorg)

    X.org documentations

local/xorg-font-utils 7.5-2

    X.Org font utilities

local/xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.1-2 (xorg)

    X.org 100dpi fonts

local/xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.1-2 (xorg)

    X.org 75dpi fonts

local/xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.2-1

    X.org font alias files

local/xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.3-1

    X.org font encoding files

local/xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.0-4

    X.org misc fonts

local/xorg-res-utils 1.0.3-3 (xorg)

    X.Org X11 resource utilities

local/xorg-server 1.7.5.901-1 (xorg)

    X.Org X servers

local/xorg-server-utils 7.5-3 (xorg)

    X.Org utilities required by xorg-server

local/xorg-twm 1.0.4-3 (xorg)

    Tab Window Manager for the X Window System

local/xorg-utils 7.6-1 (xorg)

    Collection of client utilities used to query the X server

local/xorg-xauth 1.0.4-1

    X.Org authorization settings program

local/xorg-xinit 1.2.0-1 (xorg)

    X.Org initialisation program

local/xorg-xkb-utils 7.5-2

    X.org keyboard utilities

local/xterm 255-1 (xorg)

    X Terminal Emulator

EDIT: I am using the xf86-video-ati driver, if that matters.

I downgraded xorg-server and it works perfect!

I found out that pacman stores old packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg, and I used pacman -U to install the second to newest one.

Now I have a few questions:

How do I keep pacman from upgrading X to the buggy version when I update my system with "pacman -Syu"?

And what when the bug will be fixed and I will want to upgrade X?

How do I file a bug report and where?