Bug 60520
Summary: | Random Screen / Keyboard / Mouse freezes after double upgrade. | ||
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Product: | Other | Reporter: | Ian Hartas (ian) |
Component: | Other | Assignee: | other_other |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | gaolong, mariakatosvich, shubh.nicci |
Priority: | P1 | ||
Hardware: | x86-64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Kernel Version: | Subsystem: | ||
Regression: | Yes | Bisected commit-id: |
Description
Ian Hartas
2013-07-05 14:02:44 UTC
More info. Firefox has always been slow handling facebook.com pages and sometimes reports script time-outs. kactivitymanagerd was running at 100% CPU so based on recommendation found on other pages, I killed this process. I also killed off firefox and switched to Chromium instead. Since then I have had no further lock-ups. Surely an application such as firefox should not be able to cause such a screen/keyboard/mouse lock-up? Not sure what kactivitymanagerd is but the system seemed happy for me to kill it off and it has restarted itself. Spoke too soon. Now locking up without firefox. Created a new user so that a whole new configuration would be set up - no difference, it still locks. Used various different window managers instead of KDE - it still locks. Upgraded my graphics card, lspci now shows : 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670] 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Turks/Whistler HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6000 Series] Not locked up yet... So, as everything was OK with the old card on ubuntu 11.04, but locks randomly on 13.04 I would speculate that this is a regression in the part of the Radeon driver that handles the older versions of the Radeon cards. I.e. an upgrade from 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV610 [Radeon HD 2400 PRO] to 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670] cures the problem. Post the current status of the Xorg when inputs freezed ? using cat /proc/xxxx/status by ssh via network, when all keyboard and mouse freezed. xxxx is the pid of the Xorg. Since I upgraded the graphics card I have not had any hangs. The machine is my main development system so I cannot afford the time to re-install the old card. If it locks again, I'll post the pid as requested. |