X/Windows Lockups in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid 5
For the last few months, X/Windows has locked up without warning on one of my fastest systems (Core i5). This is very unusual. I’ve run Linux systems for over 17 years and X has never been this bad. Never. About every 3 years X/Windows would lockup, but it has happened at least every 4 days for the last 2 months. Killing the Xorg process doesn’t work. That X process is using 100% of a core for multiple hours. It never recovers. The GUI is locked, but remote access from other systems works as do the background processes. Still, X can’t be killed, only a remote reboot brings the X-GUI back.
I don’t use Gnome or KDE. I’m running LXDE on Ubuntu Server x64 !0.04 LTS. It is patched weekly.
It sure would be nice if Ubuntu had not disabled the cntl-alt-backspace keystroke to kill the X-Server, wouldn’t it?
setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp 
