Bug 126001
| Summary: | System crashes when switching from graphics mode to textmode | ||||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Andreas Thienemann <andreas> | ||||||||||
| Component: | xorg-x11 | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> | ||||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |||||||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||||||
| Version: | 2 | CC: | barryn, byte | ||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2005-03-06 22:37:32 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||||
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Description
Andreas Thienemann
2004-06-15 01:32:43 UTC
Please attach your X server log from after a crash/problem. Be sure to make a backup copy of the log before starting up the X server or the new invocation will overwrite the old log from the crash. Also attach your config file and /var/log/messages. Each attachment should be using the link below, and uncompressed. Thanks in advance. The X server log is useless as the crash prevents any error from being written to the log. Config file is attached. However, it seems that xorg-x11-6.7.0-5 fixes the problem, which seems to be: * Sat Jun 26 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris> 6.7.0-5 - Fixed bug in mga driver which caused hangs on some Matrox Mystique boards of revision 0->2, which were caused by a previous upstream bugfix for another issue. xorg-x11-6.7.0-mga-storm-sync-fix.patch (#124028) I'll do some further testing however to make sure the crashes really disappeared. Well. The crashes still occur. The update didn't change anything as it first seemed. Attaching /var/log/messages config and Xorg.0.log, although I do not see anything useful in them. Created attachment 101856 [details]
Xorg-x11 config file from one of the crashing machines.
Created attachment 101857 [details]
Xorg log
skipped attaching /var/log/messages as it says nothing short of mentioning that the kernel is booting because the box was rebooted after the crash. Have you tried testing with a serial console? Is the crashing graphics hardware AGP or PCI? Did the problem happen with any previous Linux distributinos? If not, try installing a Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 1, White Box Enterprise Linux, CentOS 3.x, Tao Linux, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel (you may need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use /dev/psaux instead of /dev/input/mice again, if you are using a PS/2 mouse)? (You should be able to install one of those kernels using "rpm -ivh --oldpackage name-of-kernel.ix86.rpm".) OBTW, even if the final crash information isn't getting into /var/log/messages, attaching it may be helpful anyway! Even if you can't see anything useful in it, somebody else might. :) It may also be useful to attach "/sbin/lspci -vvxxx" output from *all three* affected machines. (Doing it from all 3 may show us some kind of common link between the machines.) Nope. No access to a serial console until now. I will test it however. The Matrox G400 is only available as AGP. No the systems worked flawlessly with _each_ single version and beta up to and including FC1, starting with RH6.0 or so... I'll try a different kernel however... There is no accessible crash information in the logs. None as in, nonexisting, not as in not-recognizable by me. :-) The system crashes before anything can be written to the syslog. lspci output is attached. Created attachment 102097 [details]
lspci output of the first box
I have the same problem with an radeon 9200 running in xinerama mode. If I turn the xinerama off the problem goes away. BTW, the system-config-display won't turn the xinerama back on once turned off (lucky for me I had my original xorg.conf saved :-). Attaching my xorg.conf Created attachment 106510 [details]
gkodinov's xinerama xorg.conf
this one hangs the PC when I do Ctrl-Alt-F1
I had the same problem on FC3 with a Matrox G400. The computer had previously been running Mandrake Linux 9.0 (with a 2.4 series kernel), without any problems. With FC3, the system would completely lockup when switching from graphical mode to text mode, or when running system-config-display. There was nothing useful in the system logs as the system would completely freeze before anything was appended to the log. I tried updating everything to the latest version, but to no avail. As a last resort, I updated the bios on the graphics card and miraculously this solved all my problems. http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/bios/home2.cfm Hope this helps. Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major
updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. Users
who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the
latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from:
http://fedora.redhat.com/download
If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest
version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org
bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg"
component.
Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new
bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the
centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that
become available for consideration in future updates.
Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE".
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