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