"Correcting" myself: /var/log/Xorg.0.log doesn't show any error but somewhere during X startup "something" send next output to stdout (that in my particular system was redirected to a bloated log file):
... 1130 expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadToggle: line 122 of inet 1131 expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadToggle: line 122 of inet 1132 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: 1133 > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols 1134 > Ignoring extra symbols 1135 Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server 1136 expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadToggle: line 122 of inet 1137 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: 1138 > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols 1139 > Ignoring extra symbols 1140 Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server 1141 expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadToggle: line 122 of inet 1142 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: 1143 > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols 1144 > Ignoring extra symbols 1145 Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server 1146 expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadToggle: line 122 of inet 1147 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: 1148 > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols 1149 > Ignoring extra symbols 1150 Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server 1151 expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadToggle: line 122 of inet 1152 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: 1153 > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols 1154 > Ignoring extra symbols 1155 Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server ... Still I don't known if that really has anything to do with the infinte random loop I observe. Regards, Enrique On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:55 PM, ENRIQUE ARIZON BENITO < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I checked in Xorg.O.log and dmesg but no luck at this moment. > > I will try the hard way debugging the X server. > > Thanks for the link! > > Enrique > > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Pat Kane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:11 AM, ENRIQUE ARIZON BENITO >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>I was trying to use xbindkeys to control the power on/off a monitor >> through an wireless keyboard. >> >> >> >>Such remote keyboard has a peculiarity: >> >>It emits short pulses of infrared signals to the USB base. Each long >> keypress in the keyboard is transmited as a row of about 20 pairs >> >>per second of keypress/keyrelease events. >> >> >> >>Through xbindkeys I associate a given key code to the script that will >> actually switch on/off the monitor. >> >> >> >>First tests worked fine, but the problem comes when I press for a long >> time (maybe two or three seconds) a key. Then X randomly start >>an infinite >> loop an I have no other option that killing and restarting the X system. >> >> >> >>I'm really interested in fixing the problem source since this is the >> last piece in a puzzle to finish my project, but I don't known exactly >> >>where to look at. >> >> >> >>I would appreciate any help or hint or link to start tracing in the X >> source files to find a solution >> >> >>Regards, >> >> >Are there any error/warning msgs in your "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" file? > >Also take a look at the output of the command "dmesg". > > >This is a nice web page > > http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging > > > > > >Pat > >--- > >
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