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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:03:21PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked: |
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> > Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM |
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> > loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes blank, |
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> > and the monitor shows an orange light as if it were disconnected from the computer. |
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> > The computer is still on, but I think it is frozen, because I can't use ssh |
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> > to access it. I've diffed the Xorg logs from a normal server and a frozen server |
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> > and they are the same besides dates and other trivial lines, unless perhaps |
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> > the frozen server doesn't even write to a log. If you think I should try that |
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> > again, tell me. I could have done something wrong. |
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> How about the system/kernel logs? |
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> Have you built a video driver against a "wrong" kernel? |
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Here are the relevant lines from /var/log/messages: |
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Aug 25 23:38:04 gentoo-desktop sudo: skrapasor : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/skrapasor ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/reboot |
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Aug 25 23:38:04 gentoo-desktop sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by skrapasor(uid=0) |
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Aug 25 23:38:04 gentoo-desktop sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root |
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Aug 25 23:38:04 gentoo-desktop shutdown[25368]: shutting down for system reboot |
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Aug 25 23:38:04 gentoo-desktop init: Switching to runlevel: 6 |
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Aug 25 23:38:09 gentoo-desktop gdm[2404]: pam_unix(gdm:session): session closed for user skrapasor |
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Aug 25 23:40:11 gentoo-desktop syslog-ng[3058]: syslog-ng starting up; version='2.1.4' |
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Aug 25 23:40:11 gentoo-desktop Linux version 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 |
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(root@gentoo-desktop) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Gentoo 4.3.2-r3 p1.6, pie-10.1.5) ) #8 Wed Aug 19 23:09:14 EDT 2009 |
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Init switches to runlevel 6, then GDM closes the session for |
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skrapasor, and then nothing else is written until I manually reboot by |
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holding the power button. I also attached the Xorg.0.log.old log, which |
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looks to be written to at around the same time the machine froze. Any |
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other logs I should check? And what kernel should I build my driver |
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against? Actually, I doubt that's the problem because it's done this |
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with every kernel I've had. My video card is in the Xorg log. I'm new to |
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mailing lists so please tell me if I am doing something wrong. I wasn't |
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sure how to post the messages log because screen, or more likely vim, was automatically |
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adding newlines where I didn't want them, so sorry if it's too wide. I love |
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this line by the way: |
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> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked: |
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