Hi all
It happens that I press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace unintentionally. This sad
event brings the end of a long X session with all of its programs.
However on my current system it also causes much more instability.
Symptom: I can't switch to a different virtual console. Any attempt to
do so aeems to hang the display. My system is in runlevel 3. So when
the X server ends it should go the console that started the session.
However it remains stuck on that terminal. I fail to switch to any
console.
The usual remedy of logging out remotely and killing some mingetty-s (to
get them to reset the console) doesn't even work. The only thing that
seems to work is starting a new X server (for that I disabled the
limitation that only local users may run startx). The session seems
fine. If I don't try to switch to a different console.
This only seems to be solved by a reboot.
On the logs I see:
Dec 10 13:21:23 alexander modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134
Dec 10 13:21:24 alexander modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81
Dec 10 13:22:51 alexander modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134
Dec 10 13:22:51 alexander modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81
Dec 10 13:24:46 alexander modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134
Dec 10 13:24:46 alexander modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81
I have no idea if this is anything related at all. But I don't see
anything else at that time.
System: RedHat 7.3, XFree86-4.2.1-13.73.3, kernel 4.2.22 (self
compiled).
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation RIVA TNT2 Model 64 (rev 15)
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at f2000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Expansion ROM at fe9f0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
In XF86Config-4:
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-buffering
Load "GLcore" # OpenGL support
Load "dri" # Direct rendering infrastructure
Load "glx" # OpenGL X protocol interface
Load "extmod" # Misc. required extensions
Load "v4l" # Video4Linux
# Load "record" # X event recorder
# You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs.
Load "freetype" # TrueType font handler
Load "type1" # Adobe Type 1 font handler
EndSection
[snip]
Section "Device"
Identifier "RIVA TNT2"
Driver "nv"
BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection
$ /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nfsd 75392 8 (autoclean)
autofs 11076 1 (autoclean)
nfs 72156 3 (autoclean)
lockd 55456 1 (autoclean) [nfsd nfs]
sunrpc 77300 1 (autoclean) [nfsd nfs lockd]
eepro100 20524 1
mii 3736 0 [eepro100]
ide-cd 32032 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 32032 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
nls_iso8859-1 3488 3 (autoclean)
loop 10128 9 (autoclean)
Any other relevant details?
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