On Wednesday 22 October 2003 11:40 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:38:35 -0400
>
> "Robert E. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Slackware is running almost nicely on my friend's machine now- everything
> > works except when I logout from KDE, Gnome, etc. the entire thing locks
> > up
> >
> > and the only way to fix it is with a hard reboot.
> >
> > This is with XFree 4.3, kernels 2.4.22-xfs, and the latest Gentoo
> > gs-sources, 2.4.23_pre7-gss.
> >
> > I've got it set up to boot to runlevel 4 (graphical mode, with GDM- KDM
> > gives me the same trouble, so it seems it's X or kernel at fault), as
> > there's absolutely no way my friend would be able to figure out logging
> > in from a command line.
> >
> > I've googled to no avail. Any ideas?
>
> Using USB mice? I had a very strange thing happen with XFree 4.3 and USB
> mice. The xdm (kdm or whatever - tried all) takes very long to show up both
> at system boot and between logins. You get a black screen for a long time.
> I could never figure this out. Then, we changed to a non-USB mouse for some
> reason, and the apparent hangings went away. The USB mouse had been working
> fine up to the upgrade to XFree 4.3.
>
> I saw nothing in any logs. Just a very long wait for something.
Nope, just the touchpad.. and it's only happening on logout- and not just a
long wait. Just a dead machine.
--
Linux EPoX.Linux.Raymond 2.6.0-test7-bk3 #2 Tue Oct 14 21:20:43 EDT 2003 i686
AMD Athlon(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
11:53:13 up 13:29, 3 users, load average: 0.32, 0.17, 0.12
We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night,
we'd bark ourselves.
-- Crazy Jimmy
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