Freeze OSX 10.6.8 (DisplayLink v1.7)

[Carlo]

Originally Posted by Zillode

This error log should be unrelated to power state switching.
Note: my screens were rotated by 90° in this log.

Hi Zillode,

Well this is really annoying. I have a theory about in which area the issue might be but we need to debug it directly to find out more and we can't reproduce your issue!
I think the WindowServer is locking up.. if you can ssh to your machine I'd try to kill the DisplayLinkManager process and if that fails also kill the WindowServer process (you'll need to sudo kill).
By closing the WindowServer all applications will be terminated so not much gain over a reboot unfortunately.

You might try an uninstall/reinstall as well. If I'm correct about the nature of the problem I think that Lion should be immune from it so a possible solution is to upgrade.
I can't say much more without seeing the issue in our lab. Please let me know how this goes.

Best regards,
Carlo

[Zillode]

Hi Carlo,

Thanks for the help already,

Originally Posted by Carlo

Hi Zillode,

Well this is really annoying. I have a theory about in which area the issue might be but we need to debug it directly to find out more and we can't reproduce your issue!
I think the WindowServer is locking up.. if you can ssh to your machine I'd try to kill the DisplayLinkManager process and if that fails also kill the WindowServer process (you'll need to sudo kill).

I killed the DisplayLinkManager (nothing happened, display-link screen freezes, my keyboard doesn't work but my mouse pointer kept moving on my normal screen).

Originally Posted by Carlo

By closing the WindowServer all applications will be terminated so not much gain over a reboot unfortunately.

After killing the WindowServer I saw the rotating flower on my main screen, but nothing happened after 5 minutes

Originally Posted by Carlo

You might try an uninstall/reinstall as well.

I have tried this many times before (was using different versions of 1.6 and 1.7 to try to fix this issue.

Originally Posted by Carlo

If I'm correct about the nature of the problem I think that Lion should be immune from it so a possible solution is to upgrade.
I can't say much more without seeing the issue in our lab. Please let me know how this goes.

Best regards,
Carlo

[romeas]

Same here - the flower was rotating with me about 15 minutes and then I restarted the whole thing because I couldn't bare waiting any longer. Damn, that was annoying. More annoying that waiting too long for getting flowers to post. Unbelievable.