Feisty sometimes completely locks keyboard & mouse

[Larry Alkoff]

Paul S wrote:
> Larry Alkoff said the following on 05/07/2007 09:11 PM:
>> I'm using Kubuntu Feisty on a new drive in the same machine but 
>> different drive I formerly ran Dapper Dan with no issues at all.
>>
>> At least 4 times in the past few days Feisty has completely locked up 
>> while I was typing - twice typing an email in Thunderbird and once just 
>> typing a command into Kterm.  Each time both the keyboard and mouse stop 
>> working.  Only a hard reset brings the computer to life.
>>
>> When I reset after such a lockup, I see a message about a crash handling 
>>   and inviting me to click to see details, but when I click, the box 
>> disappears.
>>
>> I've searched /var/log/* for some evidence of this to no avail.
>>
>> Since the only non-common element is the drive (both purchased at the 
>> same time, same brand, size etc) and the version of Linux loaded from a 
>> downloaded and burned cd, it has to be one or the other.
>> It could also be some race condition bug.
>>
>> Mostly I suspect the version of Linux but it's such a bear - easy to 
>> reload and hard to re-configure.
>>
>> Anyone have any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this?
>>
>> Larry
> 
> You don't meantion if you are running Xgl and / or beryl.  Either of 
> these will freeze my keyboard and mouse as you describe, but without 
> them running, I have no freezes.
> 
> regards,
> 

Pretty sure not Xgl or beryl.  Neither show in ps ax and my desktop if 
the plain stock KDE with no changes.

How would I tell if they are running?

Larry

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Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
Using Thunderbird on Linux