Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann <at> tu-clausthal.de> writes:
> > > I've never seen starting up X/kde cause a system to hang before... > > Is the whole system handing, or just X? The entire system latches up tight, even the ssh remote shells and console. > > Do you have a networked computer > > you can SSH in from, that would enable you to kill X. I start X(kde) with startx. I followed the guides in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml Code Listing 2.4: Configuring your local session $ echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc X/kde runs fine, but when I exit it now, the system latches up, tight all ssh sessions, the console, everything. > > If all else fails, > > and provided you have enabled CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ in your kernel, hold > > down Alt and SysReq/PrtScr and press S, U and B in turn to reboot > > (reasonably) cleanly. Pausing a couple of seconds between each key is > > probably a good idea. Interesting idea however this laptop does not have this key "SysReq/PrtScr". > E, I, S, U, B > so everything is killed, and nothing trying to write to disk, when unmounting > them. Hmm, I do not think you understand, when I exit X/kde the entire system is latched up tight. None of the keys work, nothing is echoed to the screen, the system is latched up tight. All I can do is power cycle the system. When I do that the screen fades and the mouse cursor is visible but slowly fades to a solid white screen. The system hangs at the very moment I use the logout button in kde, to exit the system. Very strange and very repeatable..... maybe emerge --emptytree world? revdep-rebuild -p is fine. I am clueless how to fix this... ideas? James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
