[mythtv-users] OT problem with Xorg

Gary Dawes gary.dawes at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 20:07:47 UTC 2008


2008/7/1 Garrick Staples <garrick at usc.edu>:

> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 06:56:55AM +0100, Gary Dawes alleged:
> > Bugger - It's not fixed. Joe's strace has revealed that X seems to be
> stuck
> > in a loop processing gettimeofday. machine time is correct and NTP is
> > functioning as normal.
>
> It is very likely not having a problem with gettimeofday, it is just in a
> loop
> that happens to include gettmeofday.
>
> strace only shows the system calls, it just happens to be the only system
> call
> in the loop.
>
>   while(1) {
>     gettimeofday();
>     do some stuff;
>     do some other stuff and fail;
>   }
>
> --
> Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
> University of Southern California
>
> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
>
> Continuing slowly with this, it now seems that it's mythwelcome and
mythfrontend which is causing Xorg to go completely loopy. Don't know why
yet. I may try a recompile.
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