I will try that next time my system gets out in the weeds. Thanks! -- Jason Apol, Sr. Engineer - Logicraft Industrial Systems, Inc Cell: 616-299-7558 www.lcrft.com
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Matt Price <matt.pr...@utoronto.ca> wrote: > On 12-09-17 05:38 PM, Jason Apol wrote: > > Matt - How does one "recover from the crash by switching to VT1"? > > > > I'd be happy if I can get to some kind of desktop and save my work. > Ctrl-Alt-F1 will take you to a "Virtual Terminal" -- it's a console > screen where you can log in just as you would at the gnome-terminal > prompt. Then you issue those commands, and switch back to the running X > session, which is running on VT7, with Ctrl-Alt-F7. you cna switch > between the 6 built-in VT's with F1-F6; f7 is the default X session; F8 > seems to echo system log messages unless you log in a second user, with > 'Swtitch User', at which point a new X session will start on that screen. > > Does that help? > > ps -- My success rate is not that high -- at best I usually end up with > a barely-functional x system, try to save as much work as I can, then > restart X with 'sudo restart lightdm', which destroys my X session but > also resets whatever that display bug is. At worst the resultant > session is just as nonresponsive as the original crashed one. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/966744 > > Title: > [i965] Resume from suspend leaves me with black screen or a screen of > the desktop before it suspended. Compiz hung in > intel_update_renderbuffers() from intel_prepare_render() from > brw_draw_prims() > > Status in Compiz: > Confirmed > Status in The Linux Kernel: > Incomplete > Status in OEM Priority Project: > New > Status in OEM Priority Project precise series: > New > Status in X.org xf86-video-intel: > Confirmed > Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: > Invalid > Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > Status in “compiz” source package in Precise: > Invalid > Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Precise: > Confirmed > Status in “compiz” source package in Quantal: > Invalid > Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Quantal: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > This happens intermittently. Sometimes upon resume, all I see is a > black screen and the cursor. the mouse and keyboard respond (the mouse > moves) but nothing changes. Switching to console and back doesn't fix > it. Killing Compiz also does not fix the issue. Further, if one has > password lock disabled on resume the user will be stuck with a frozen > display of whatever was last shown on the screen before suspend. The > mouse cursor still changes as you hover over various elements but the > display is frozen solid. One can switch to another TTY via ctrl+alt+F1 > but killing the X session is the only way to get back to the desktop. > > Attempts to replace compiz have been fruitless. Trying the 3.4 kernel > also did not fix the issue. > > BTW, I haven nothing connected to the laptop when I resume and before > suspend. This is a very annoying issue because the only way to > recover is to reboot, which means all the open files will be lost. > > [UPDATE] > It was discovered that switching to a tty, killing compiz, then invoking > 'metacity --replace' would successfully switch over to metacity. Attempting > to invoke 'compiz --replace' afterwards would put the state right back > where it was (frozen screen, etc.) and output error messages saying > something similar to "invalid configuration, this should never happen, you > should probably raise a bug report about it". After killing Compiz again > and invoking compiz --replace yet again I can get basic window management > back (though unity --replace still does not work as it whines about unclean > exit states). So one still needs to start over again to get it all > functioning properly. > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 > Package: unity 5.8.0-0ubuntu2 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12 > Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64 > .tmp.unity.support.test.0: > > ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1 > Architecture: amd64 > CompizPlugins: > [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell] > CompositorRunning: compiz > Date: Tue Mar 27 21:47:25 2012 > DistUpgraded: Fresh install > DistroCodename: precise > DistroVariant: ubuntu > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 > (20120124) > MachineType: LENOVO 32492HU > ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-20-generic > root=UUID=8afc43b9-4675-46b0-8bf8-49bfd422c2c7 ro quiet splash > i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 vt.handoff=7 > SourcePackage: unity > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > dmi.bios.date: 06/29/2011 > dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO > dmi.bios.version: 6QET67WW (1.37 ) > dmi.board.name: 32492HU > dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO > dmi.board.version: Not Available > dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information > dmi.chassis.type: 10 > dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO > dmi.chassis.version: Not Available > dmi.modalias: > dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6QET67WW(1.37):bd06/29/2011:svnLENOVO:pn32492HU:pvrThinkPadX201:rvnLENOVO:rn32492HU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: > dmi.product.name: 32492HU > dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X201 > dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO > version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.2-0ubuntu4 > version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu35 > version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1 > version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu2 > version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A > version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu2 > version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu7 > version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev > 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1 > version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati > 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2 > version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel > 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4 > version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2 > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/966744/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/966744 Title: [i965] Resume from suspend leaves me with black screen or a screen of the desktop before it suspended. 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