EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.

[Robert Noland]

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 18:06 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> Robert,
> 
> the issue is still happening.
> Now the system has the following config:
> OS - i386 stable/7 r191214
> X - xf86-video-ati-6.12.2 xorg-server-1.6.0,1
> HW - from dmesg:
> agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> on hostb0
> drm0: <ATI Radeon RV280 9250> on vgapci0
> vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
> info: [drm] AGP at 0xe8000000 64MB
> info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.29.0 20080528
> info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
> info: [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
> info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
> drm0: [ITHREAD]
> from Xorg.log:
> RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon 9250 5960 (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x5960)
> 
> Maybe I didn't mention this before - this a rather old system that tracked
> stable/7 from before 7.1 times, and also tracked ports for quite a while. So it is
> almost one year old, but this problem started happening somewhere in March of this
> year. So the cause is in something recent, either in our drivers or in xorg code.
> The hardware as can be seen is also quite aged.
> 
> Today this happened again, I mean the symptoms were the same: completely hanged X,
> no screen updates, no keyboard handling, but mouse cursor can still be slowly moved.

Any clue what the trigger is?  Or exactly what component update started
it?

robert.

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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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