Re: What version of Xorg?

In article <fnm8fr0242h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:07:14 GMT Hactar <ebenZEROONE@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| In article <fnilv601de3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
|> On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:07:15 GMT Hactar <ebenZEROONE@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
|> | tail -f /var/lox/Xorg.0.log on a text console, switch to it with
|> | ctrl-alt-number. See where it gets when it stops.
|>
|> Since X is stuck in a loop, I cannot switch the console. I know it is
|> VT 10. But it's on VT 10 and the screen is black. It appears that X
|> goes into a CPU loop sometime after it switches console and starts to
|> change the video mode. It never finishes. I let the loop run for 2
|> hours and it's not getting out in any reasonable time frame.
|>
|> I can SSH in from another computer (that has the same video card but is
|> running Slackware 11.0 with Xorg 6.9.0 and working OK). Doing strace
|> shows no syscalls being made or signals being handled by the X process.
|> It pegs the CPU to 100% (one CPU core out of a pair of dual cores).
|
| OK, after you kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace check that file. It's hung
| on some driver. Might want to google your video card and the last thing
| in the xorg log.

ctrl-alt-backspace has not effect. The X process isn't getting any signals
and is not calling select/poll/read for anything (no syscalls at all). It
appears to be hung in a loop apparently with all signals masked off.

Fine, make it tricky, why doncha? OK, log in from another machine and
tail -f that file while you do stuff. Heck, how do you normally kill X
when it hangs? BRS?

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