From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J65eI-0002eF-Pa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:48:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBMEjAtl017197; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:45:10 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBMEj9J5017187 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:45:09 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 9724A208C59 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:45:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879DD208BE5 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:45:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.13) with ESMTPSA id 28730985 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:45:09 +0100 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: NVIDIA 100.14.19 + xorg-server 1.4.0.90 +xorg-x11 7.3 = blackscreen after every restart Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:45:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1198268183.5803.20.camel@ShadowAerie> <1198287150.5803.30.camel@ShadowAerie> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712221545.07617.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.3 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 8cf94607-c5e9-435c-8638-1c6979a08386 X-Archives-Hash: da113bed5e00e360d64d4dd04dbd84a8 On Samstag, 22. Dezember 2007, Duncan wrote: > B Vance posted > 1198287150.5803.30.camel@ShadowAerie, excerpted below, on Fri, 21 Dec > > 2007 20:32:30 -0500: > > I can't change to console mode. The only key presses that appear to do > > anything are ctrl-Alt-Del. The screen goes to black and the drive light > > flickers. Beyond that it seems to be dead as a door-nail. > > Well, if it takes the 3-finger salute, it's not dead. init, which > handles that sequence, remains alive, and can initiate the restart > sequence (init level 6), with the shutdown scripts running so it can run > bash and the like. (That's good, as it least it means you get to shut > down gracefully and don't endanger any data not yet written to disk.) > > It would appear to be X that's dead, not the machine as a whole. > > You say you can't switch to console mode, but that can mean different > things to different people. Does that mean you've tried Ctrl-Alt-F1, > etc, to see if the VT switcher works? Also try Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc, which > should (unless you've disabled it in your xorg.conf) kill X and return > you to a console prompt. > > If none of those work directly, do you have magic sysrq turned on in your > kernel? CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ, located under the kernel hacking menu in > menuconfig. If you are running a kernel with that configured in, you > have a few more options as well. > > Even when the three-finger-salute doesn't work (of course, if it does, > use it), you can still try Alt-Sysrq-S (emergency-sync filesystems, do > this three times to be safe), Alt-Sysrq-U (unmount what can be unmounted, > remount-read-only the rest), Alt-Sysrq-B (reboot). That's handled > directly by the kernel, so as long as it isn't too far gone, you can > still avoid most problems of an unclean shutdown. Of course, if the > kernel is gone too, or at least gone far enough it doesn't trust itself > to reliably write anything to the disk lest it write in the wrong place, > this won't work, but it's always worth a try if Ctrl-Alt-Del isn't doing > anything. before you sync or unmount do 'e' and 'i' - terminate all tasks and kill all tasks. Or some task writing to the disk and the sync is worthless - and the unmounting might not work. So kill first, sync then, unmount after that. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list