From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Gnome will hang when in spash screen "Gnome:The Panel" ALT+Fx can not change vertual term. CTL+ALT+BKSP will result in blank screen, CTL+ALT+DEL will not reboot box Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Unknown 2.Startx 3. Actual Results: 1/3 of times proceed normal 2/3 is messed up see above Expected Results: start Gnome video card NV11 (GeForce) 1024x768 32bpp sorry i am use windows but after 6 fsck and two installs in one due to problems i'm tired
try bumping down your bit depth (16, 24?) - this one is hard as it we are not able to reproduce it as far as I know
Can't reproduce this on my X server. See if you can switch virtual terminals with Ctrl-Alt-F1 when it happens (note that Ctrl-, not just Alt-). If so, try "DISPLAY=:0 xterm" and see if you can start an xterm that appears on virtual terminal 7.
1) Changing depth and or resolution does not help 640x480 800x600 8bit 16 bit and 32 colour depth all have same issue. 2)nope no help stays hung. I also installed 7.0 today and installed Xf86 4.0.2 and 2.4.0 kernel no problem.
The fact that you can't switch terminals and that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace gives a blank screen instead of returning to the console indicates an X server bug to me.
one last thing. installed helix and I had no problems gnome is running fine
It must be an X server bug, however you've updated GNOME and do not have the problem anymore. Since we cannot reproduce it, and there is still a bug, would you be willing to reproduce it again and attach your config and X server log to the bug report?