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On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:26:43 -0500 |
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covici@××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:45:43 -0500 |
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> > covici@××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > > Hi. I am having a very bad problem which makes gnome unusable -- |
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> > > once I get into the virtual console where the xserver is |
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> > > displaying gnome, console 12 in my case, I can never get out of |
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> > > that console -- control-alt-f1 or anything does not work. If I |
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> > > try to ssh in from somewhere else, I cannot stop gdm because the |
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> > > x server will not stop -- even kill -9 will not stop it and I |
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> > > have to reboot the system. |
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> > The part about kill -9 failing is exactly the problem I had with the |
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> > 3.18.x kernel series a while ago. I know this problem must be |
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> > hardware specific because some distros are still shipping 3.18 |
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> > kernels as the default, and I'll bet others in this mailing list |
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> > are using it without problems too. I had some scary problems with |
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> > that kernel version that were very difficult to diagnose until I |
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> > just rebooted with an older kernel and the scary problems |
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> > vanished. The 4.2 series seems okay so far on my VMs. (Even my |
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> > gentoo VMs had some minor problems with 3.18.x) |
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> I am using 4.1.9 from gentoo sources -- do I need to downgrade maybe |
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> the server and nvidia-drivers? |
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I think downgrading xorg and a video driver sounds more complicated |
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than trying a different kernel, but you're in a better position to know |
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that than I am. Depends on how many packages you changed just before |
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you noticed the problem. If you've been running kernel 4.1.9 for a |
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while with no problems, and you just recently upgraded xorg/nvidia, |
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then maybe that would be the simpler thing to try. |
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If you still have some older kernels available, I personally would |
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reboot with one of those and see if the nvidia driver will compile with |
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that version. (You may need to reinstall/reconfigure the older kernel |
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sources if you've already removed them.) A big PITA either way :( |
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