And right after, could no longer unlock my desktop to get at it, even switch ctrl-alt-F1 and back to F7, which normally works until the system just comes unglued.

So there's apparently 2 layers of problems:

1) xorg clients exceed counts

2) system craps the bed as a result, not able to spawn new applications via xorg display's

Odd that system level things like simple-locker break when doing so, simply no longer rendering.  Upon montior wake-up, I'll see my full desktop, even able to mouse over some things like cairo-dock that respond to compositing (of which I killed as a test, no kwin/desktop effects running since boot), but cannot otherwise interact enough to restart/unlock/reboot the window-manager or system.

Side note, my tty's seem to bind to the non-existent intel sh*t card/port on the mobo, so even when ctrl-alt-F1, I don't actually get a term.  I can ssh to it, but have tried this, restarting lightdm just hangs the system.  Hard reset like a windoze box time.

And it's back for a few days, again.

I really don't think my usage that abnormal, but seems no one else runs into these things.  Very frustrating.

-mb


On 06/14/2015 08:55 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
Ah, xbmc/kodi seems to be a big reason.

Fired kodi up to catch certain season ending content tonight, and yeah, took me from 118 xclients before to max after.  At least I got to watch though.

I tried to launch something after moving it to the background, no launch, no error, just usual telltale signs of brokenness, so checked...

mb@host:~$ xlsclients -a | sort | wc -l
Maximum number of clients reachedxlsclients:  unable to open display ":0"
0

Thought what changed from an hour ago, nothing more than launching kodi.  Killed it (kill -9 pids, kodi wouldn't die otherwise), and voila.

mb@host:~$ xlsclients -a | sort | wc -l
118

As usual, probably plugins developed on windoze that doesn't bother to limit exploit of the os (probably more encouraged by the nsa).  But hey, at least I know I need to yell at someone there to figure out how to code it and their plugins properly.

Just an fyi.

Side note, this isn't the ultimate evil it seems but a significant one.  Tried to launch a gl-based game last night too, and get things like sdl() failures to spawn a window, so there's something else getting run-down over time.  Craptastic part is absolutely nothing errors system-wise, even doing a blanket tail -f on /var/log/*, hoping something would bark to indicate such.  I still think amd binary drivers are crap.

-mb


On 06/14/2015 12:33 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
It's gotten *that* unstable lately, it's hardly worse than rebooting every few days.

-mb



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