On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:26:43 -0500 [email protected] wrote: > walt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:45:43 -0500 > > [email protected] 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?
I think downgrading xorg and a video driver sounds more complicated than trying a different kernel, but you're in a better position to know that than I am. Depends on how many packages you changed just before you noticed the problem. If you've been running kernel 4.1.9 for a while with no problems, and you just recently upgraded xorg/nvidia, then maybe that would be the simpler thing to try. If you still have some older kernels available, I personally would reboot with one of those and see if the nvidia driver will compile with that version. (You may need to reinstall/reconfigure the older kernel sources if you've already removed them.) A big PITA either way :(
