Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xorg
The system is using UBUNTU 7.1 64 2.6.2214-generic on a Core 2 Duo platform
with 4GB RAM and 965 video card.
I am running several VMplayer sessions as well as firefox and a couple of file
managers.
This issue started about 1 month ago and happened twice so far.
Occasionally (about once every 2 weeks), when I click on the red "power" button
to lock the screen, it does NOT display the shutdown/restart/lockup splash
screen but instead goes into a non-responsive state. In this state, I can not
interact with the X server as it ignores all of my clicks and keystrokes.
However I can move the mouse and it will change cursor based on what it flies
over. I can hit numlock and the keyboard will reflect that. I can also use
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a different console.
So obviously the mouse and keybards are still working but X is just
ignoring them (besides mouse movement).
I tried connecting to my desktop using VNC but VNC has the same
symptoms.
The applications are still updating the screen (the clock on the menu
bar and on the task bar in VMware'd Windows is still on time).
I killed the windowed applications one by one from TTY1 (firefox, vmware
window #1, vmware window #2, vmware window #3) and when I killed the
last remaining Vmplayer (2.0.2 build-59824) window, X restarted on TTY9.
The same exact thing happened last time: it seems that a VMplayer window is
causing this somehow.
Note that the keyboard and mouse were not captured by the vmware window at all.
The mouse was moving freely across the desktop and Ctrl-Alt-F1 was working.
However, it is possible that VMplayer had the focus when the lock-up happened.
Indeed, it's title bar was highlighted.
On a side note I would need to find a way to gracefully stop vmplayer
when that happens because I always lose my work...
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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X can stop responding when clicking the shutdown button
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198522
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