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 788691384B4 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 01:54:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52B9621C019; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 01:54:17 +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 3B0A3E086C for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 01:54:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zushm-0001sk-7f for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 02:54:10 +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 ; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 02:54:10 +0100 Received: from w41ter by 216.240.144.7 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 02:54:10 +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 17:54:02 -0800 Message-ID: <20151106175402.18a1897f@a6> References: <2040.1446839143@ccs.covici.com> <20151106134608.7402c341@a6> <8719.1446848803@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: 563d6bb1-59d6-4a2c-9c3b-b00282e60127 X-Archives-Hash: 23117b06cbd195c72ff7a2561d7ef693 On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:26:43 -0500 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > walt wrote: > > > 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) > > I am using 4.1.9 from gentoo sources -- do I need to downgrade maybe > the server and nvidia-drivers? I think downgrading xorg and a video driver sounds more complicated than trying a different kernel, but you're in a better position to know that than I am. Depends on how many packages you changed just before you noticed the problem. If you've been running kernel 4.1.9 for a while with no problems, and you just recently upgraded xorg/nvidia, then maybe that would be the simpler thing to try. If you still have some older kernels available, I personally would reboot with one of those and see if the nvidia driver will compile with that version. (You may need to reinstall/reconfigure the older kernel sources if you've already removed them.) A big PITA either way :(