FC3test1: X / display hangs after overnight inactivity

[Miguel Pereira Leite]

Same here, yesterday, on FC3t2.

Corrected after updates available today 04:00 GMT. today is runing
again.. reseted initdefault to "5"

Sex, 2004-10-01 às 15:05 +0530, Banibrata Dutta escreveu:

> Hi,
> 
> Anybody has noticed the problem of Xserver (or display driver) hanging
> in FC3-test1 ? I've filed a bug in bugzilla # 132968 (
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132968 ).
> 
> pciscan reports the display adaptor as:
> pci bus 0x000 cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x2572
>  Intel Corp. 82865G Integrated Graphics Device
> 
> to summarize here's the problem:
>  if i leave the Xserver running (WM being either GNOME / KDE based)
> overnight, 9/10 time i'd find that the display as hung, i.e. a thin
> raster band (in 16/256 colors) at the bottom of the screen. in this
> state CTRL-BACKSPACE, ALT-CTRL-Fn or even ALT-CTRL-DEL doesn't work,
> basically i cannot do anything using the console keyboard. if i telnet
> into this system from some other system, i am allowed in, after which
> if i try killing all X processes including gdm etc., the status
> doesn't change, i.e. the raster band stays and keyboard remains
> non-responsive. i've tried switching to runlevel 3, stopping X and
> going back to runlevel 5, without any good. only option left at this
> point is to reboot the system, or poweroff & poweron.
> 
> thanks & regards,
> banibrata dutta.
> 

-- 
Miguel Pereira Leite <mpleite at ppl-ti.com>
Proença & Pereira Leite - Tecnologias de Informação, Lda
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