X hangs system on log out

james_at_soon.co.uk
Date: 04/11/04

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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:25:31 -1200

    Hello

    About a week ago I posted this problem on the debian-laptop
    list, unfortunately I received no response so I am having a
    2nd try with this posting on both the laptop & the
    debian-user lists. Also I suspect that this might be a
    generic nvidia problem.

    Recently I have noticed that whenever I log-out from kde or
    gnome, or run 'shutdown -r (or -h) now' or even try the kill
    X by using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace the screen goes blank and the
    whole system appears to hang.

    System Details (or rather what I think is relevant) -
    Dell Inspiron 2650 P4, 32MB GeForce2 Go
    Kernel 2.6.3
    Debian (testing/unstable),
    xserver-xfree86 v4.3.0-7
    xserver-common v4.3.0-7
    nvidia-glx v1.0.5336-6 (probably earlier when problem
    started)
    nvidia-kernel-common v1.0.5336-1 (probably earlier when
    problem started)
    nvidia-kernel-source v1.0.5336-6 (probably earlier when
    problem started)

    As far as I can tell the problem started as a result of a
    standard 'Upgrade system' using Synaptic, which installed an
    upgraded version of nvidia-kernel-common &
    nvidia-kernel-source. I made the new nvidia module and
    installed it but did not reboot. Later when I noticed the
    problem I upgraded all the nvidia & xserver bits to unstable
    in an attempt to solve the problem but this did not work.

    I can spot nothing in the syslog or XFree86.0.log (or any
    log for that matter) that gives me a clue as to what the
    problem is, it looks as if the system just stops.

    Any useful pointers as to what might be causing this would
    be gratefully received.

    James

    James Aitken

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