On 30 Nov 2009, Alejandro Riveira Fernández spake thusly: > When I install the infamous nvidia driver I use. « sudo stop gdm » > there are a start and restart aliases too see « man initctl ».
Aha! That's done it. New upstartish aliases I hadn't noticed... FWIW, my qemu startup line (later adjusted, see below): DISPLAY=mutilate:0 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc-0.11 -enable-kvm -m 1024 \ -smp 2 -name ubuntwo -vnc :0 -boot c \ -drive file=/vm/linux/ubuntwo.img,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on,format=raw \ -drive file=/usr/local/tmp/ubuntu-9.10-beta-alternate-amd64.iso,if=ide,media=cdrom,index=2 \ -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:4b:f7:7f,vlan=0,model=virtio,name=virtio.0 \ -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=ubuntwo,script=/sbin/qemu-linux.ifup,downscript=/sbin/qemu-linux.ifdown \ -parallel none -usb -k en-gb -vga vmware -soundhw ac97 -runas linux-vm \ -serial mon:telnet::10404,server,nowait > Sometimes is not enough though and I have to stop gdm and then pkill > the X server Unfortunately stopping X renders the vnc console useless. I got the SDL console working (note for frustrated others: a quick 'xhost +blah' no longer works in recent X versions, xhost support is gone from the server: you must propagate your xauth cookie across instead), whereupon it coredumps on me with a pretty-much-useless stacktrace: vmsvga_fifo_run (s=0x117e5e8) at /usr/src/qemu/x86_64-spindle/hw/vmware_vga.c:572 572 /usr/src/qemu/x86_64-spindle/hw/vmware_vga.c: No such file or directory. in /usr/src/qemu/x86_64-spindle/hw/vmware_vga.c (gdb) bt #0 vmsvga_fifo_run (s=0x117e5e8) at /usr/src/qemu/x86_64-spindle/hw/vmware_vga.c:572 #1 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () I seem to be getting a lot of coredumps from qemu right now :( So I started with -vga std. The emulation failed flood is unaffected (strangely it's not consistent: it happens about half the time). As soon as I issue a 'stop gdm', X exits and the emulation flood halts: but although there are other getties running I can't find a way to switch to them, as qemu has stolen Ctrl-Alt for its own purposes: so the system is pretty much useless (maybe I should get an sshd up and try to restart things from there). (I've never needed to do this before: either my qemus have been text mode all the time, or X with one console.) Surely switching VTs is possible: any clues? Unfortunately Ubuntu bug 417859 has broken the recovery console so I can't use that to get me in in text mode and *then* start X. Not fixed, but then it's only a bug in something critical to system recovery which has been open for months and has had variations on the same bug open for *two flipping years*. Sheesh. :/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html