[Fluxbox-users] Sometimes the screen stops responding

[Jj]

I'm running a recent git checkout from fluxbox
(61e951617ce7983cfb6ba476d0db290bfd0a5c3e Nov 5) and it's happened a couple
of times that the full screen stops responding. The mouse remains in
whatever cursor it was at that last moment (text cursor or pointer) and no
click or keyboard event would work.

It has only happened twice since, but I haven't found what is causing it or
trace the logs for any traceback information that would help debug.

I tried to do fluxbox-remote restart via SSH with X forwarding, but no
luck, it says it can;t open the display and "Success" without any effect.

I can Ctrl+Alt+F# to exit to a TTY but still was unable to send a remote
command to restart fluxbox.

What extra information can I gather to help solving this? Or is the error
something else not fluxbox related? - This only started to happen since I
switched to a compiled version.

[Thomas Lübking]

You don't need X forwarding, but to "export DISPLAY=:0" - likewise from
another TTY login.
Before restarting fluxbox run
xdotool key "XF86LogGrabInfo"
which will print pending grabs to your Xorg log - notably whether
fluxbox holds an active grab anywhere.
If so, file a bug and attach your ~/.fluxbox/init and ~/.fluxbox/keys
there.

Cheers,
Thomas

Post by Jj
I'm running a recent git checkout from fluxbox
(61e951617ce7983cfb6ba476d0db290bfd0a5c3e Nov 5) and it's happened a couple
of times that the full screen stops responding. The mouse remains in
whatever cursor it was at that last moment (text cursor or pointer) and no
click or keyboard event would work.
It has only happened twice since, but I haven't found what is causing it or
trace the logs for any traceback information that would help debug.
I tried to do fluxbox-remote restart via SSH with X forwarding, but no
luck, it says it can;t open the display and "Success" without any effect.
I can Ctrl+Alt+F# to exit to a TTY but still was unable to send a remote
command to restart fluxbox.
What extra information can I gather to help solving this? Or is the error
something else not fluxbox related? - This only started to happen since I
switched to a compiled version.
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[higuita]

Hi

couple of times that the full screen stops responding. The mouse
remains in whatever cursor it was at that last moment (text cursor or
pointer) and no click or keyboard event would work.

I would say that the X11 locked/crashed...

What the dmesg and the Xorg.0.log have to say?

Good luck
higuita
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