On Thursday 01 November 2007 14:09, David C. Rankin wrote: > Mates, > > Suse 10.3, kde, compiz. The screen freezes on log out and will not > return you to the login prompt. You can see the text screen from boot > flash just for a second before kdm tries to restore the login. The > the screen goes blank. (not totally black like off, the display is > still active, it's just black) The system is hardlocked and must be > hard reset. ctrl+alt+[either del or backspace] has no effect. Lockup > occurs regardless of whether the WM is kwin or compiz. The logs are > empty.
When this happens, have you tried accessing a virtual console (CTRL+ALT+N where N is 1 through 6) to log in an run diagnostic or restorative commands? If you cannot, have you tried logging in via ssh for the same reason? > What should I check or what link can I read to start to sort this > out? thanks. Is this repeatable, or has it just happened once? If repeatable, does it occur 100% of the time? If it's a one-time (or rare) thing, it might be the Reiser FS hang problem (Bug 336669: <https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336669>), but this never manifests itself the same way twice, other than that one or more processes end up permanently hung in a D wait state. It seems to strike any process at any time and is (my hunch) a concurrency bug. Do you have a HT, multi-core or multi-processor system? > -- > David C. Rankin Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
