Guest pascald Posted April 14, 2003 Report Share Posted April 14, 2003 I upgraded from mdk9.0 to 9.1, everything went fine except this : When I want to log out from a Gnome or a KDE session, the monitor hangs up, and my keyboard and mouse do not respond anymore. I can then only push the computer shutdown switch (I know, it is a bad thing to do, but that leaves me with no choice). The only way to have a clean reboot or shutdown is to open a term, su as root and type shutdown -r or -h now. Same problem when I run a session as root. Same problem after changing the login manager from kdm to gdm. The syslog file does not indicate anything (except of course, after restart it says that the computer has not been shutdown cleanly). Where do I need to look first ? Pascald PS : the Xfree86 config file has not been modified during the upgrade. Maybe there is something to change when using Xfree86-4.3 instead of 4.2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted April 14, 2003 Report Share Posted April 14, 2003 Welcome! Where do I need to look first ?That you did an Upgrade instead of backing up /home and doing a clean install. There's a few threads on the board from recent attempts/failures (Search for upgrade). It will only get worse......the only stable way is a clean install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted April 14, 2003 Report Share Posted April 14, 2003 What happens if you make a new user and attempt to logout from the new user? If it works, then you may want to recreate your main user folder.. (delete user, delete folder, remake user) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pascald Posted April 15, 2003 Report Share Posted April 15, 2003 Thanks for your help. I found the answer here : http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op...c=6507&forum=10 I use a Radeon (7500 something), and it seems that all Radeon >=7500 have the same problem. The solution is to update XFree (follow the link). Sorry for this unnecessary post, I should have searched much longer myself before posting here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted April 15, 2003 Report Share Posted April 15, 2003 Not at all, now anyone else with this problem will encounter your post. Good catch :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mellobiafra Posted May 1, 2003 Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 I have a Radeon 7000VE and have had exactly the same problem...I had thought it was either a sick ISO image or an ACPI problem. You've saved me a lot of wasted time too...result! 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted May 1, 2003 Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 I upgraded from mdk9.0 to 9.1, everything went fineAn upgrade is not advisable. A better idea is to do a clean install while keeping /home intact. That you did an Upgrade instead of backing up /home and doing a clean install. There's a few threads on the board from recent attempts/failures (Search for upgrade). It will only get worse......the only stable way is a clean install.Note that backing up /home is only a safety measure in case something goes wrong and the partitions get screwed up. But the idea is to keep /home intact while doing the installation in /. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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