On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:19 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
Reading the Ubuntu forums, I've noticed quite a few reports from users complaining about Wine deadlocking their system - keyboard unresponsive, with no solution but to restart the entire computer.
Sometimes users report this problem after running ANY Wine process - even winecfg.
I'm not sure what's causing the issue. At first I thought it was a hardware thing (perhaps ATI's infamously terribly drivers), but would that still prevent winecfg from working? Wine is a user-level process, it shouldn't be able to cause a hardlock under any circumstances, right?
Anyone else seen these kinds of reports?
Hi Scott - Not Wine related, but on Debian Sid OpenOffice 2.1/2.2, if I click a menu item it will randomly 'deadlock'. The system isn't really locked up though, if I ssh in from another machine I can see my X server is pegged at 100%. Killing X, of course restarts everything under it, but the machine is still technically 'responsive'.
So... Ubuntu is a form of Debian... X locks up.. I figured it was just my Xserver, as I use an old Matrox 400 Dual Head....
Maybe it's just a coincidence..
Rick
Thanks, Scott Ritchie