From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MCwbB-0002h0-OF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:10:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FEBCE0193; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:10:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79670E0193 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:10:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MCwb8-0006h4-1b for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:10:14 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:10:10 +0200 id 0001000C.4A2A78C2.000015FE From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 halts - how to catch a reason? Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 16:07:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.28-tuxonice-r3; KDE/4.2.3; i686; ; ) References: <200906050003.31259.a@gaydenko.com> In-Reply-To: <200906050003.31259.a@gaydenko.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906061607.53800.wonko@wonkology.org> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 361e8453-ceeb-4fdf-8d26-335bc18f6dd2 X-Archives-Hash: 3bc747bcc52da2075e1b298e0c2c2e3b Andrew Gaydenko writes: > Last week or two (I mostly use Gnome and can not say more precisely) > after KDE4 starting session apps starts also, as well as bg and panels. > But then I get black screen (during this KDE4 start process), and > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does nothing. The only way I have in hand to continue > is to use SysRq kernel hacking (s, u, b). > > Have you an idea how to catch the halt reason? Alt-SysRq-R will allow you to switch to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn. Wonko