From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: sometimes, killing the x server by ctrl+alt+backspace is not possible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.login and startx 2.press ctrl+alt+backspace 3. Actual Results: Nothing happens Expected Results: the x server will be killed Additional info: Sometimes, this is the result when trying to logout by Main-Menu->logout: no logging out is done, and in this situation, pressing the buttons ctrl+alt+backspace have no effect.
What video card do you have ?
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 04)
After a hang, reboot into text mode, making sure to not start the X server, make a backup of the server log file, then attach that, the config file, and /var/log/messages uncompressed to the bug report using the link below. Once we have that information we can investigate the issue deeper. Thanks in advance.
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".