Bug 1948

Summary: mouse goes crazy when disk activity is high
Product: xorg Reporter: thomas <doctorkaeding>
Component: Input/MouseAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: 6.8.1   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description thomas 2004-11-27 08:50:55 UTC 
On an ext3 partition, some space is reserved for root's 
use only.  When all space for normal users is full and 
there is still disk activity (root is installing files 
or as a user I am moving files to another partition to 
make more room), the mouse goes crazy.  It flies all over 
the screen and randomly clicks on things.  It resizes 
windows, closes things, and even once locked the console 
(by clicking on the correct thing in KDE).  The mouse I 
use is imps2 on dev/psaux.  All system stuff and /home 
are on the same partition (/dev/hda7).  This has happened 
three times so far, once in twm and twice in KDE.  The 
only thing the episodes have in common is that the user 
portion of the drive was full and root was installing 
something.
Comment 1 thomas 2004-12-02 09:37:16 UTC 
Ammendment:  It doesn't just happen when the disk is nearly full. 
Today it happened when I untarred a large (9 MB) tar file.
Comment 2 Erik Andren 2006-05-21 07:08:11 UTC 
Are you still experiencing this using a more current version of xorg?
Comment 3 Erik Andren 2006-06-16 02:08:21 UTC 
IMHO, this doesn't sound like a xorg related problem. 
Closing as NOTOURBUG.

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