Rong: It sounds like GDM is failing to manage the display after you logout. GDM is the program responsible for showing the login screen. Bob suggests you check the /var/log/gdm logs. This is where GDM will save it's Xserver log output. This is useful to check. If there are any obvious errors about why the Xserver might be failing to restart, the errors might be in this file.
Also, you could edit your /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf file and set "Enable=true" in the "[debug]" section, and then restart GDM by running "gdm-restart" as root. After doing this, GDM will spew extra debug log output to your /var/adm/messages file. When the problem next happens, I'd review the output and see if there is any useful information about what might be failing. You can share the log output with me and I'd be happy to help review it also. Brian Bob Doolittle wrote: > Rong Shen wrote: >> Hi all: >> >> I bought a new Dell Studio 540 with 8 gig RAM and Intel G54 graphics >> chipset, and I installed OpenSolaris 2009.06. All is well except that >> after I logout, about 30% of the time (not every time), the monitor >> will go off and says "no signal" before it goes off. Same if I do >> ctrl-alt-backspace. Then it seems the system hangs and there is no >> screen to see. The computer still is powered on. >> >> I have googled for hints, but not getting anywhere. This never >> happened with my previous computer. I have try to create xorg.conf >> with "NoZap", but when I logout, this problem still happens. >> >> I don't want to press the power button everytime it happens. Is there >> a way to get back either the plain text console or gnome? >> >> Thanks in advance? >> > > I'd look in /var/log/gdm to see if there are any hints about what's > going wrong in the gdm logs. > > -Bob > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
