Bug 56381

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Description of problem:
system hangs hard periodically when starting X from the command prompt.  As
usual in X startup, the screen flashes, blanks, but then instead of
continuing to nVidia splash screen, hangs with a blue @ sign in the upper
left of a black screen.  And that's all....no keyboard response, or network
access.  A hard reboot is required.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.at command prompt, startx
2.
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Actual Results:  see description above

Additional info:

somewhat random in occurrence.  I have the vague impression that it is more
likely to lock up just after login; and less likely to lock up if the
"startx" command is preceded by 2 or 3 "sync" commands.

I have tried specifying VideoRam 65536 in the XF86Config "device" section
for the nvidia driver, in hopes that might prevent a lockup due to some
auto-probing problem;  it still locks up however.

Hardware is Dell Precision 530 workstation with dual 1.7 gHz Xeons, 1 GB
RAM, and nVidia Quadro2 Pro 64MB