Re: 2.5.67, 2.5-bk lock up with RH 9 and graphical log out.

[Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>]

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 18:04, Steven Cole wrote:
> With kernel 2.5.67 or 2.5-bk-current and Red Hat 9, if I try to do a
> graphical log out from either KDE or Gnome, the test machine locks up
> hard, not responding to pings, or alt-sysrq-anything. (and yes,
> /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq is 1 and I "fixed" /etc/sysctl.conf, line 13)
> 
> The same lockup happens with ctrl-alt-backspace from KDE or Gnome.
> 
> Doing an /sbin/init 3 works fine.  Harsh way to log out however.
> Subsequent cycles of startx and graphical "Log Out" do _not_ lock up
> the box, but work just fine.
> 
> Needless to say, with the vendor kernel, everything works perfectly. 
> Alt-sysrq-various behaves as expected. Ctrl-alt-backspace does not
> lock up the box.
> 
> If I get time, I'll try some older 2.5.x kernels to see if this is a
> recently introduced behavior.

.config? Are you using Framebuffer console support?
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