X freezes on start with full CPU usage [Solved]

tek0 · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 43

When I launch startx or xdm, the terminal goes black with a cursor in the top corner and nothing happens, no keyboard input is accepted. I can ssh in, to see X eating up all CPU and not having started a window manager. Only if I use xdm, it starts either the kdm or xdm process, but there is no difference.

I tried different graphic drivers, desktop environments, display managers, xorg.conf files. The logs don't say much, no warnings, no errors. Nothing in syslog and dmesg. When I kill the X process through ssh, I still can't send input from the machine's keyboard. I downgraded all X packages I recently updated.

With either driver, the log always seems to end after loading the int10 module. I've tried disabling it, but then X complains.

Example log
xorg.conf

The graphics card is a Radeon Mobility X700, I'm running a 2.6.19 suspend2 kernel on amd64.

Any hints to debug that, please.

edit: strace startx, only the last few lines. The last two lines are repeated about a million times in the logfile.

Alright, have to remember to always strace errors.

Tlaloc · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject:

Do you have framebuffer support disabled? If not, try without it.

Bye, Val.

tek0 · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 43

Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject:

I have a similar problem with completely different hardware.

My Gentoo install has been up and running well for over a year.

Last time I rebooted when X loads it just gives me a black screen with the "watch" mouse icon indicating that I should wait.

It's not a hard lock, as I can activate and deactivate numlock, as well as move the mouse.

Once I CTRL-ALT-F1 to console, log in and do a "top" I see that XDM is taking almost all the CPU.

It seems to happen prior to the login manager (GDM) loads, as I never get a username and password dialog.

Unfortunately I have had such a long uptime since my last reboot, that there is no telling what one of countless emerges broke my system

Has anyone else experienced this?
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Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:56 pm Post subject:

Oh.. And I ahve looked through the X and GDM logs and nothing there looks suspicious.

Appreciate any help.

I'm really close to just doing an emerge -e world and seeing if that helps, but that is really just a pain..
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Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject:

more info...

I killed XDM and tried starting it from the console with startx..

I got an error message that gnome-session could not find libdbus-1.so.2

Doing a locate, I found it in /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.2

Could gnome be looking in the wrong place?

I might try reemerging gnome, but I am not sure which package I should reemerge. Any sugestions?
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Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject:

well...

I reeemerged gnome-session with the line "emerge -1 gnome-session" and it didn't work. Still can't find the libdbus library it needs...

I guess I'm stuck. I've already tried reemerging dbus, but that didn't hep either

Any ideas?
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tek0 · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 43

Zarathustra[H] · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:55 am Post subject:

tek0 · n00b Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 43