Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem which makes gnome unusable

walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:45:43 -0500
> covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
>
> > Hi.  I am having a very bad problem which makes gnome unusable --
> > once I get into the virtual console where the xserver is displaying
> > gnome, console 12 in my case, I can never get out of that console --
> > control-alt-f1 or anything does not work.  If I try to ssh in from
> > somewhere else, I cannot stop gdm because the x server will not stop
> > -- even kill -9 will not stop it and I have to reboot the system.
>
> The part about kill -9 failing is exactly the problem I had with the
> 3.18.x kernel series a while ago.  I know this problem must be hardware
> specific because some distros are still shipping 3.18 kernels as the
> default, and I'll bet others in this mailing list are using it without
> problems too.  I had some scary problems with that kernel version
> that were very difficult to diagnose until I just rebooted with an
> older kernel and the scary problems vanished.  The 4.2 series seems
> okay so far on my VMs. (Even my gentoo VMs had some minor problems with
> 3.18.x)

I am using 4.1.9 from gentoo sources -- do I need to downgrade maybe the
server and nvidia-drivers?

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