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 C0F821384B4 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 21:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2829021C04B; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 21:48:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU004-OMC1S14.hotmail.com (blu004-omc1s14.hotmail.com [65.55.116.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DD0D21C026 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 21:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU437-SMTP24 ([65.55.116.9]) by BLU004-OMC1S14.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.23008); Sat, 7 Nov 2015 13:47:59 -0800 X-TMN: [0vJNWH4dabre3K1crQ59MpjtctLKzt4Z] X-Originating-Email: [frodriguez.developer@outlook.com] Message-ID: From: Fernando Rodriguez To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem which makes gnome unusable Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 16:47:29 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/3.18.23; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20151106134608.7402c341@a6> References: <2040.1446839143@ccs.covici.com> <20151106134608.7402c341@a6> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Nov 2015 21:47:59.0204 (UTC) FILETIME=[F8083240:01D119A5] X-Archives-Salt: 09f9c020-7a22-4d3c-a2de-335353b2c5cf X-Archives-Hash: ee3f3da5a768e88b11d583c0a897de06 On Friday, November 06, 2015 1:46:08 PM 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've been using 3.18.x for a while now and I only had a very similar problem when I updated to 3.18.23 about a week or so ago. Everytime I ran sudo the desktop would become unresponsive and if I tried to switch to another VT it would freeze completely. I didn't tried to ssh in, but the SysRq keys worked for rebooting. I could reproduce it everytime with 3.18.23 so I went back to 3.18.22. There where two updates to the sudo package since then and yesterday I tried booting 3.18.23 and it worked fine so it was the sudo-1.8.12 and kernel 3.18.23 combo that caused it. Now I'm using 3.18.24 without problems. I use kde and ati-drivers. -- Fernando Rodriguez