Re: XFree86 lockup with screensaver

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

The XFree86-4.2.0-23 (Test75) package contained a fix that could be 
related to your coworker's problems:

http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/changelog.html

You don't seem to be having as many propblems, so please upgrade your 
coworker to XFree86-4.2.0-25 (the latest release) and see if that helps 
at all.

Let us know how it works,

Harold

Abraham Backus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've encountered this once today and a coworker of mine is encountering it
> frequenty.  When the windows system goes into screensaver mode and he comes
> back, X is locked up and he can't do anything.  He has to forcibly kill the
> X processes and restart.  It happens every time for him and I had him do
> various things like minimizing and restoring the XFree86 window, as well as
> checking with XFree86 in the foreground, background, or minimized.  Also, he
> says it happens regardless of which screensaver is selected.
>
> When it happened to me, I noticed that XWin.exe was taking up a considerable
> amount of CPU (it was at 100%) from windows task manager.  I haven't been
> able to reproduce it since then.
>
> I've searched the mailing list archives and wasn't able to find anything
> related to this.  Maybe someone else has encountered this or knows what's
> up?
>
> thanks!
> -Abe
>
> His box:
> Windows 2000 SP3
> cygwin-1.3.18-1
> fvwm-2.4.7-2
> XFree86-base-4.2.0-1
> XFree86-bin-4.2.0-2
> XFree86-etc-4.2.0-1
> XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2
> XFree86-fnts-4.2.0-2
> XFree86-lib-4.2.0-3
> XFree86-startup-scripts-4.2.0-3
> XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-15
> X startup parameters: "C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c startx"
>
> My box:
> Windows XP Home SP1
> cygwin 1.3.19-1
> fvwm-2.4.14-1
> XFree86-base-4.2.0-1
> XFree86-bin-4.2.0-2
> XFree86-etc-4.2.0-1
> XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-2
> XFree86-fnts-4.2.0-2
> XFree86-lib-4.2.0-3
> XFree86-man-4.2.0-1
> XFree86-prog-4.2.0-1
> XFree86-startup-scripts-4.2.0-3
> XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-25
> X startup parameters: "C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c
> "XWin -rootless -emulate3buttons -clipboard""