livelocks and deadlocks on 8.0BETA2

[Henrik Hudson]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Ed Jobs wrote:

> On Friday 21 August 2009 02:56, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > I have a quad-core system that I updated to 8.0 about 2 weeks 
> ago. It
> > ran fine until yesterday when I used the PATA/ATAPI DVD drive to 
> read a
> > disk. Then the fun began. I saw two totally different presentations, 
> but
> > I hope that they both are manifestations of the same problem.
> >
> 
> [snip]
> 
> i have no idea about the second problem, but the 1st one it's not 
> fbsd-specific. it has happened to me on a linux box. repeatedly i 
> might add. after a couple of hours playing videos, X would use 100% 
> of cpu and i wasn't able to switch to a VTY or kill it via ctrl-alt-
> backspace.
> i think it might be a problem related to mplayer, but i'm not sure, 
> cause it did not crash, so no bad-behavour log.
> on the linux box, it's easy to handle (just /etc/rc.d/kdm restart via 
> ssh). But since fbsd doesn't use kdm it's only reboot.

Just FYI. You don't need to reboot FreeBSD either for this. Just
restart X in the same way if you're using gdm or kdm. The scripts
should be in /usr/local/etc/rc.d   

If it's the standard xdm install, via /etc/ttys,  then just kill the
xdm process and it will restart from the tty setting.

Henrik
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