On Friday, November 06, 2015 1:46:08 PM walt 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've been using 3.18.x for a while now and I only had a very similar problem when I updated to 3.18.23 about a week or so ago. Everytime I ran sudo the desktop would become unresponsive and if I tried to switch to another VT it would freeze completely. I didn't tried to ssh in, but the SysRq keys worked for rebooting. I could reproduce it everytime with 3.18.23 so I went back to 3.18.22. There where two updates to the sudo package since then and yesterday I tried booting 3.18.23 and it worked fine so it was the sudo-1.8.12 and kernel 3.18.23 combo that caused it. Now I'm using 3.18.24 without problems. I use kde and ati-drivers. -- Fernando Rodriguez
