Bug 10646 - xkb causes X lockups
Summary: xkb causes X lockups
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Server/General (show other bugs)
Version: 7.2 (2007.02)
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2007-04-14 09:33 UTC by Michal Suchanek
Modified: 2009-05-09 10:12 UTC (History)
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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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