Re: Sparc: Kernel 2.6.13 to 2.6.15-rc2 bug when running X11

From: Ben Collins
Date: Wed Dec 07 2005 - 09:07:09 EST


On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 12:05 +0100, J.O. Aho wrote:
> Xorg jumps to VT7, you see a console cursor, "_", at the top left corner
> and thats it. It's impossible to change back to VT1 (or any other), the
> only thing that works is to press [stop]-[a] so that you get back to the
> OBP from where I can reset the machine (resetting by the reset button
> don't work). It's still possible to ssh to the machine, more and dmesg is
> possible, but running ps causes the machine to completly lock up, change
> init mode don't give any affects att all and trying to turn off or kill X
> results in the same as ps.

Does the dmesg contain any sort of oops?

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Ben Collins <ben.collins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Developer
Ubuntu Linux

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