system freezes after loading gdm/gnome

Mon Feb 25 15:29:34 UTC 2013

On 02/25/2013 09:26 AM, Jan Dvořák wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running rawhide for fun and since a few days ago a few seconds
> after starting gdm the whole system freezes. I am sorry that I can't
> really pinpoint the exact update as I suspend and this only manifested
> after a reboot.
>
> The problem is that I don't get any logs and running startx with
> "exec gnome-session" in .xinitrc leads to the exactly same problem.
>
> Interestingly, if I run just "gnome-terminal" from my .xinitrc,
> close it and then re-run with full gnome-session, I get the shell
> and everything seems to work.  Well, except it is somewhat sluggish,
> suggesting some hidden breakage.
>
> Any advices?
>
> Best regards,
> 	Jan Dvorak
>

Seeing this also.  Rawhide up-to-date with stock ati driver on RV 630. 
X seems to be eating up cpu cycles during sluggishness.

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