From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC2C11384B4 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 21:46:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27C3221C08C; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 21:46:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B87421C073 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 21:46:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuopx-0003PT-6p for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 22:46:21 +0100 Received: from 216.240.144.7 ([216.240.144.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 22:46:21 +0100 Received: from w41ter by 216.240.144.7 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 22:46:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: problem which makes gnome unusable Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 13:46:08 -0800 Message-ID: <20151106134608.7402c341@a6> References: <2040.1446839143@ccs.covici.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-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.240.144.7 X-Archives-Salt: 5f6ad92c-dbfe-457d-89f3-f619aedc4d4e X-Archives-Hash: 358d1d81025717c8e21ea07186df377b On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:45:43 -0500 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi. I am having a very bad problem which makes gnome unusable -- > once I get into the virtual console where the xserver is displaying > gnome, console 12 in my case, I can never get out of that console -- > control-alt-f1 or anything does not work. If I try to ssh in from > somewhere else, I cannot stop gdm because the x server will not stop > -- even kill -9 will not stop it and I have to reboot the system. The part about kill -9 failing is exactly the problem I had with the 3.18.x kernel series a while ago. I know this problem must be hardware specific because some distros are still shipping 3.18 kernels as the default, and I'll bet others in this mailing list are using it without problems too. I had some scary problems with that kernel version that were very difficult to diagnose until I just rebooted with an older kernel and the scary problems vanished. The 4.2 series seems okay so far on my VMs. (Even my gentoo VMs had some minor problems with 3.18.x)