Need help understanding X server freeze

[jeetu.golani at gmail.com]

Hi Felix,

Thanks for pointing me to the debugging resources.

I tried the following based on your suggestions :

- Used Xfce4 instead of Gnome. No luck.

- Managed to get the modesetting driver to work with Xfce4 (didn't
work with gnome). No luck and X still freezes.

Apart from the resources you pointed me to debug X, I came across the
following that deals specifically with X freezes :

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Freeze

I will try out everything else suggested in all of these resources.
Fingers crossed.

Wonder what Xephyr and Virtualbox (with the Vboxvideo X driver) are
doing different from the Xorg drivers that X clients work there but
not under Xorg? *pull my hair*


Thanks so much for all your help.

Regards,
Jeetu








On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> jeetu.golani at gmail.com composed on 2016-10-04 10:14 (UTC+0530):
>
>>> Maybe try the modesetting driver at least on the Intel/Sid installation.
>
>
>> Unfortunately when I use the default modesetting driver my X
>> consistently crashes simply by starting gnome-terminal and doing
>> something simple like traversing it's menus. This causes the entire X
>> server to crash and restart back to the login.
>
>
>> I read others having this problem with Debian Unstable and the
>> recommendation was to move back to the Intel driver.
>
>
>> Is there some way for me to gather more debugging information from the
>> server so that when ssh over my tunnel causes a freeze I can figure
>> out what has happened?
>
>
> I'm no expert on remote troubles. I suggest to focus on Intel/Sid by reading
> https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/how-report-bugs and
> https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging/
> if you haven't already, and providing all appropriate information on the
> intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org mailing list. If someone there says to
> report elsewhere, the response should come with more specific info as to
> what to provide, and more importantly, to which list. Surely you'll need to
> provide basic info, such as motherboard model (to know which generation
> chipset) and output from 'lspci | grep VGA' plus hwinfo and/or inxi and an
> Xorg log.
>
> Maybe first try a different login manager and/or DE. Gnome is surely the
> first or second most demanding from the X server of all DEs, so may be the
> root problem.
>
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