mouse and keyboard lockup w/ RedHat 8.0

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Larry Cook wrote:

=>I could use some pointers on diagnosing an intermittent lockup problem I am 
=>having with RedHat 8.0.  I originally thought it was caused by the umax-pp 
=>backend I am using with XSane, but the last two times my scanner was never 
=>powered on.  The last time it happened it finally occurred to me that I should 
=>try to telnet in to see if the whole system was hung.  The telnet was 
=>successful so I did "shutdown now".  My telnet session got dropped but the 
=>system never fully shutdown.  So now I'm wondering if it's an XFree86 problem, 
=>although I wouldn't expect that to prevent the system from shutting down.
=>
=>Just some simple pointers to get me started would be great.  Maybe along the 
=>lines of:
=>
=>1) What logs should I check for errors?
=>
=>2) What is the best way to restart XFree86?
=>
=>3) Any processes or kernel stuff I should check?
=>
=>4) Or anything else that would help me narrow down the cause?

This has happened to me also in the past. Not recently. When it does 
happen I can always telnet in. Not clear that it's X related. I'vechecked 
logs and come up with nothing. To restart X I just kill all the X 
processes and then just rerun startx. As for more? I'm also open to 
suggestions.

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