Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, François Cami wrote:
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday crashcourse ca> wrote:
for debugging purposes (hi, francois!), i wanted to drop out of my
GNOME desktop to the command line in runlevel 3. the first time i
tried that ("init 3"), the whole display went dark and i couldn't find
anything on any virtual console. eventually, i powered down and up
again just to get my system back.
i just tried "init 3" again from the desktop and my GNOME session is
still chugging along happily even though:
# runlevel
5 3
#
What happens if you :
* add the DontZap option to your xorg.conf :
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection
i lied, i had time to test this, and it seems to solve the problem.
"init 3" now takes me properly to runlevel 3, where i can log in as
root and "init 5" gets me back to GNOME so we're good. and on that
note, i'm out of here for the day. thanks for all the assistance.
rday
--
p.s. just to summarize all of the X stuff since yesterday, this is my
xorg.conf at the moment on my gateway m-1626:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
EndSection
and i have "nomodeset" in my grub.conf.
The only thing that DontZap gets you is the ability to use alt-ctrl-bksp
to kill X, which was the second part of François' suggestion.
I think I saw this same trouble as failure to shut down or reboot
yesterday. I thought I saw the rc0 script getting killed before the
machine had shutdown. That is, the process that's supposed to kill all
the other processes got killed. At least that's how I interpret the
following log:
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost console-kit-daemon[2303]:
GLib-GObject-WARNING: IA__g_object_get_valist: value location for
`gchararray' passed as NULL
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost console-kit-daemon[2303]:
GLib-GObject-WARNING: IA__g_object_get_valist: value location for
`gchararray' passed as NULL
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost console-kit-daemon[2303]:
GLib-GObject-WARNING: IA__g_object_get_valist: value location for
`gchararray' passed as NULL
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost console-kit-daemon[2303]:
GLib-GObject-WARNING: IA__g_object_get_valist: value location for
`gchararray' passed as NULL
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost init: tty4 main process (2533) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost init: tty5 main process (2534) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost init: tty2 main process (2535) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost init: tty3 main process (2536) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost init: tty6 main process (2537) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost init: rc0 main process (3287) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost kernel: [drm] Resetting GPU
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost init: rc0 main process (3298) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost smartd[2529]: smartd received signal 15:
Terminated
Apr 10 14:52:03 localhost smartd[2529]: smartd is exiting (exit status 0)
... then shutdown stops, but the machine stays up. Today I got:
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost console-kit-daemon[2295]:
GLib-GObject-WARNING: IA__g_object_get_valist: value location for
`gchararray' passed as NULL
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost console-kit-daemon[2295]:
GLib-GObject-WARNING: IA__g_object_get_valist: value location for
`gchararray' passed as NULL
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost console-kit-daemon[2295]:
GLib-GObject-WARNING: IA__g_object_get_valist: value location for
`gchararray' passed as NULL
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost console-kit-daemon[2295]:
GLib-GObject-WARNING: IA__g_object_get_valist: value location for
`gchararray' passed as NULL
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost console-kit-daemon[2295]:
GLib-GObject-WARNING: IA__g_object_get_valist: value location for
`gchararray' passed as NULL
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost gdm-simple-slave[2582]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL:
g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost init: tty4 main process (2524) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost init: tty5 main process (2527) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost init: tty2 main process (2536) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost init: tty3 main process (2540) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost init: tty6 main process (2541) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost init: rc6 main process (3648) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost init: rc6 main process (3656) killed by TERM
signal
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost gdm-simple-slave[2582]: GLib-GObject-WARNING:
invalid unclassed pointer in cast to `GdmSession'
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost gdm-simple-slave[2582]: CRITICAL:
_gdm_session_conversation_stopped: assertion `GDM_IS_SESSION (session)'
failed
Apr 11 15:57:26 localhost gdm[3666]: ******************* START
**********************************
[+++ most of traceback omitted for brevity +++]
Apr 11 15:57:27 localhost gdm[3666]: The program is running. Quit
anyway (and detach it)? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]
Apr 11 15:57:27 localhost gdm[3666]: ******************* END
**********************************
Leaving me with a blank desktop and a mouse, but nothing else, which is
mostly the effect I saw yesterday. The power button is set up to shut
down, so that's how I can ultimately shut down.
I'll look for filed bugs and file one myself if I don't see any.
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