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dekomote

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Registered: 2011-03-14

Posts: 6

X hangs on kill or restart

Hi,

There's a weird bug happening on my system. Each time I kill X (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) or restart gdm, it hangs, showing only black screen and a weird artifact - some letter, at the bottom of the screen. I can't switch tty, I can't go back to X. It just stays like that and the monitors turn off after 2-3 minutes. The only option is to hard-reset. There's nothing in the logs about that.

My setup is dual-head monitor, NVidia GT440 (latest blob from repos), Xorg 1.11. No [testing] repo.

Cheers and thanks upfront.

Doomcide

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Registered: 2011-08-22

Posts: 221

Re: X hangs on kill or restart

I might have the same problem: Everytime I kill X and try to start it again with startx or xinit it freezes, the mouse and keyboard become completely unresponsive (no num-lock light etc.).   /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old is empty after a reboot. I only have a single monitor, but I'm using the same Graphics-card. I tried the nvidia-drivers from the official arch-repo, nvidia-beta-drivers from the AUR and the drivers from nvidia.com. Still no luck, but the nouveau drivers work fine in this case.

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sakisds

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2011-10-03

Posts: 105

Re: X hangs on kill or restart

I have a similar problem. It just doesn't happen every time I restart GDM and I am using x2 GTX 460 on a single monitor (SLI disabled due to problems with gnome-shell). Running the latest drivers from repositories, I might try with nouveau later (always used the official drivers).

dekomote

Member

Registered: 2011-03-14

Posts: 6

Re: X hangs on kill or restart

Bump. Still not resolved. Tried everything. Anyone have an idea what might be the reason for this bug? Tried nouveau, it works. NV blob, doesnt.