Bug 10646

Summary:	xkb causes X lockups
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Michal Suchanek <hramrach>
Component:	Server/General	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2 (2007.02)
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Michal Suchanek 2007-04-14 09:33:58 UTC

On two different machines with a recent X server I get lockups when I switch keyboard layout with xkb.
It usually happens when the X server runs for a week or so, survives several cycles of suspend/resume, and for some reason I want a different keyboard layout.

The result after running something like 'setxkbmap cz' is X taking all cpu time and only killable with SIGKILL. Of course, the screen is unusable after terminating X this way.

Happened with ati, radeon, and mga display drivers so I guess this is not a display bug. The lockup is not reliably reproducible, when I start an X server and try setxkbmap it usually works. However, most lockups I had lately were either in resume or just after running setxkbmap.

Gentoo
x11-base/xorg-server 1.1.1-r5 1.2.0-r3

Debian
ii  xserver-xorg-core                1.2.99.903-1

Comment 1 Michal Suchanek 2009-05-09 10:12:58 UTC

does not happen recently

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