On Friday 17 October 2003 22:45, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Hello > > Recently, my computer has been hanging irrecoverably and I don't know why. > I've been 2.6 series kernels for some time and they worked perfectly > until I migrated to test7. Here's what I happens. > > I log into enlightenment using XDM. I do my work. I log out > enlightenment back into XDM. However, somewhere in between starting to > log out and getting to the XDM login screen the computer freezes > completely with garbled colours on screen. Nothing works (Ctrl-Backspace, > Alt-F1, etc) and I have to hard reset. (I should mention that I'm using > framebuffer with vesafb enabled). > > Admittedly, problems do occur when on ~x86 using latest snapshots of gcc > 3.3.1-r5 and glibc 2.3.2-r6 together with 2.6 kernels but all this has > been working fine for some time. I can't pinpoint what may be causing it. > > How do I even begin to debug this problem? It happens virtually every > time I log out of E. Some minor configuration is corrupted every time > this happens and I'm afraid of more severe data loss.
I'm too am using ~x86 with gcc331r5 and glibc232r6 and development-sources260t7r3. I haven't had any problems with locking up (except during initial kernel initialisation on the USB). From what you've described, the problem seems to be related to the video. What card/drivers are you using? XDM resets the video driver between logins. If you do a Ctrl-Backspace from the XDM login screen, does it lock? How about several times? Try using vga=0 to the kernel to disable vesafb. Still get the problem? Try an alternative video driver - even vga! Still get the problem? If you do still get the problem, then I would think it is more than likely (but still not definate) that the video card/driver is not the problem. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
