diehl Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 I'm sorry to say that my Mandriva 2006 has developed a "blue screen of death" sadly reminiscent of a bug in another OS. When I log out from a KDE session most of the time I am presented with a solid blue screen and a non-functioning keyboard (meaning I cannot open a console to restart X, meaning my only choice is a hard reboot which is highly undesirable). Mandriva 2006 did not originally have this problem, ever since installing some "upgrades' in early January I get this problem. I don't know if the problem is Xorg, KDE, or KDM. Actually, the problem occured with XDM, too so I do not think that is the problem. I have a ATI Radeon 9550 video card. I'm using this software: xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk xorg-x11-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk xorg-x11-xauth-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk ati-xorg-8.21.7-0.1.20060plf xorg-x11-xfs-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk libxorg-x11-devel-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk ati-kernel-2.6.12-12mdk-8.16.20-1mdk kernel-2.6.12.15mdk-1-1mdk kde 3.4..2 Anyway, this problem is a big PITA. I have to su to root and shutdown by hand (shutdown -h now) to halt my machine. My hunch is that this is an Xorg problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 This is not an xserver bug, but a KDM bug- altough XDM could also be affected. Hitting alt+ctrl+backspace will (most likely) bring you the KDM/XDM login screen after a while. Not sure if its a Mandriva or KDE bug (as similar issues exist in other distributions as well), but anyway you can use Mandriva's Bugzilla to report it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diehl Posted January 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 I have reported this bug to Mandriva. I will try switching to GDM and see if it helps. If need be I'll switch to Gnome entirely. I have a multi-user machine, and this bugs prevents changing users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mini Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 I have the same problem. More details in my previous post. The only workaround I've found was to use GDM. Thanks diehl for submitting a bug report! I should have done it myself, maybe it would be fixed by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 If you insist using KDE, you can always set the system start at init 3 (instead of init 5), login via terminal, and start your xsession like "startkde" or "startx xfce4" or whatever... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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