[SOLVED]Gnome Shell died

chinaxiahaifeng · 2012-05-14 15:31:36

For servel times, my gnome died, and then the mouse, key board stoped working either.
Finally, l hava to force the system shutdown

i wonder why once the gnome died, the key board stop working.And is there any way to restart the gdm without restart the computer in the brute force way?

Last edited by chinaxiahaifeng (2012-05-19 06:18:53)

chinaxiahaifeng · 2012-05-15 11:14:49

does any one know ?

dominik232 · 2012-05-15 18:29:43

Can you find what kernel vomits on this time?
Look for some logs on /var/log, maybe file /var/log/errors have something?

Keyboard and mouse stops, but what about rest of system? Have you seen something works on that time? Maybe flash animation or something? Maybe you was watching movie or listening to music at this time?

chinaxiahaifeng · 2012-05-16 07:52:29

dominik232 wrote:

Can you find what kernel vomits on this time?
Look for some logs on /var/log, maybe file /var/log/errors have something?
Keyboard and mouse stops, but what about rest of system? Have you seen something works on that time? Maybe flash animation or something? Maybe you was watching movie or listening to music at this time?

I just opened the wireless connection, less than two seconds the gnome-shell died, the keyboard and mouse stoped either;
but i can see that key CapsLk's LED turns on or off in loops.

Last edited by chinaxiahaifeng (2012-05-16 07:53:45)

bohoomil · 2012-05-16 08:02:10

It's called kernel panic. First of all, boot your computer from a LiveCD and check the content of log files. Then disable all daemons and modules and check if you can boot to a minimal console environment. You may also want to modify your /etc/inittab so that you can boot to a single user runlevel.

chinaxiahaifeng · 2012-05-16 12:51:59

bohoomil wrote:

It's called kernel panic. First of all, boot your computer from a LiveCD and check the content of log files. Then disable all daemons and modules and check if you can boot to a minimal console environment. You may also want to modify your /etc/inittab so that you can boot to a single user runlevel.

Sorry, I know nothing about kernel;and what's kernel panic?
I'll have a try later.
Thank you any way!

sanderd17 · 2012-05-17 18:17:40

a kernel panic happens when the kernel can't handle a certain command anymore. It's a bug in the kernel, in the compilation options used to compile the kernel, or in one of the modules loaded.

ndxt to what bohoomil suggests, you could try using another kernel (like the lts or ck-kernel from the aur).

have you installed new hardware recently?

chinaxiahaifeng · 2012-05-18 07:44:41

sanderd17 wrote:

a kernel panic happens when the kernel can't handle a certain command anymore. It's a bug in the kernel, in the compilation options used to compile the kernel, or in one of the modules loaded.
ndxt to what bohoomil suggests, you could try using another kernel (like the lts or ck-kernel from the aur).
have you installed new hardware recently?

no
the gnome-shell just died when i was using kernel 3.2.
But now i'm using kernel 3.3, and it never happend since then.

Gcool · 2012-05-18 07:51:50

So probably some issue that got fixed in one of the 3.3 kernel releases.

PS: don't forget to mark your thread as [SOLVED}.

chinaxiahaifeng · 2012-05-19 06:16:36

Gcool wrote:

So probably some issue that got fixed in one of the 3.3 kernel releases.
PS: don't forget to mark your thread as [SOLVED}.

OK

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