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scubanator87

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Registered: 2008-08-11

Posts: 26

System lock up

I updated this morning and now am unable to load a desktop. GDM loads fine, but after logging in to gnome (even the fail safe one) the system does a full lock up (restarting x does not work mouse does not work etc)

I have an nvidia 8400 (laptop model)

I have KDE4.1 available in my GDM sessions and the same thing seems to happen there.

I tried disabling composting in xorg.conf and tried re-running nvidia-xconfig neither worked

Logging into "fail-safe terminal" does work as well as switching to VT (alt-F1-F5) at the Login screen.

There does not seem to be any errors during the boot process.

any ideas?

scubanator87

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Registered: 2008-08-11

Posts: 26

Re: System lock up

Seems to be related to the nvidia upgrade problem

ravster

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From: Queen's U, Kingston, Canada

Registered: 2004-05-02

Posts: 285

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Re: System lock up

what do the logs say? xorg.log, errors.log, everything.log, kernel.log.

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[DoodoM]

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From: Bilbao/Spain

Registered: 2008-04-25

Posts: 13

Re: System lock up

You have to update the nvidia driver again from the repositories.

There's a new version in extra: nvidia-173.14.12-3 that fixes the problem.

Then everything is gonna be like always (at least for most of the people including me).

Last edited by [DoodoM] (2008-08-11 17:01:07)