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Trac3R

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From: Lübeck - Germany

Registered: 2007-01-26

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system locks sporadically during shutdown since kernel upgrade

Hi!

I upgraded my core/kernel26 recently to version 2.6.23.1-3. After that from time to time the system locks during shutdown. Well, it doesn't really lock, it does just not continue shutdown. The first time this problem appears when I wanted to reboot after the kernel upgrade.

I'm using Arch Linux with KDE/kdm and this is what happens exactly:

*I tell my KDE to shutdown the computer
*the screen becomes black except a blinking cursor, than nothing happens anymore without my intervention

*since Xorg is still alive, I press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace then
*a login prompt appears

This is not what should happen, but Xorg is down at least. So I have to log in again at the console as root and run 'shutdown -P now'. Then everything works fine.

I don't know what's the reason for this. I checked the logs but found nothing interesting. Maybe it's even another package I upgraded with the kernel. And since I cannot reproduce the error I don't know where to search. Everthing works most of the time.

Here are my logs of that special situation:

[root@C3PO log]# grep WW Xorg.0.log
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[root@C3PO log]#
[root@C3PO log]# grep "Oct 29 22:" everything.log
Oct 29 22:03:06 C3PO kdm[7836]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
Oct 29 22:03:51 C3PO shutdown[29696]: shutting down for system reboot
Oct 29 22:03:51 C3PO init: Switching to runlevel: 1
Oct 29 22:03:52 C3PO shutdown[29706]: shutting down for system halt
Oct 29 22:03:58 C3PO init: Switching to runlevel: 0
Oct 29 22:03:59 C3PO syslog-ng[7666]: Termination requested via signal, terminating;
[snip]
[root@C3PO log]# 
[root@C3PO log]# grep "Oct 29 22:" auth.log
Oct 29 22:03:06 C3PO kdm: :0[8894]: pam_unix(kde-np:session): session closed for user trac3r
Oct 29 22:03:17 C3PO login[7830]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user trac3r by LOGIN(uid=0)
Oct 29 22:03:29 C3PO su: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user root by trac3r(uid=1000)
Oct 29 22:03:52 C3PO su: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user root
[root@C3PO log]#

This is my system at that time:

[root@C3PO log]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio Processing Unit (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller [Tornado] (rev 40)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1)
[root@C3PO log]# uname -a
Linux C3PO 2.6.23-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 19 08:48:54 UTC 2007 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
[root@C3PO log]# 
[root@C3PO log]# grep kernel26 pacman.log | tail -1
[2007-10-22 23:52] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.22.9-1 -> 2.6.23.1-3)

If there are anymore information that could come in handy, I will to post it here, as well. I'm going to upgrade my kernel to the current version and hope the best, but because I don't read anything about this issue it may be a general problem.

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by Trac3R (2007-10-30 18:22:07)

Trac3R

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From: Lübeck - Germany

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 30

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Re: system locks sporadically during shutdown since kernel upgrade

If anyone is interested in a sollution:

I've heard that this should be related to the framebuffer mode. Since I don't use it anymore such strange things have not been observed. But who knows...