Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 142502
G550 Dual Head Hard Lockup on Logout
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:56 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: I get a hard lockup when logging out of the desktop running dual head from a Matrox G550. Bootup, login and running of X dual head for hours is okay. It's just when I logout. The system does not seem to even get to gdm again because the background remains visible at the hang. CTL-ALT-Backspace doesn't work because mouse and kbd are dead. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot into X or boot to RL3 and startx 2.Login 3.Logout Actual Results: System hang. Have to fsck the filesystem on the way back up. Expected Results: clean logout and gdm display Additional info:
I saw this repeatedly until one of the hald updates just before Christmas. My sypmtoms (observed via a remote session) were that the hal daemon appeared to be spawning many processes trying to read contents of my (empty) CD writer, and that hung the logout. If I left it for someting like 30 minutes, it logged out fine. Logging back in repeated the problem. Hasn't happened now for some weeks.
Setting status to "RAWHIDE" as the problem aparently no longer occurs as mentioned in comment #1 above.