Am Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:22:34 -0700
schrieb Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org>:
On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 22:15 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 04/10/16 22:04, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
> > We've pretty much pinned it down, now. The recipe is: hybrid
> > graphics + systemd-udev update == X crash. That is, if there's a
> > systemd-udev update in the dnf transaction, and the system has
> > hybrid graphics, and X is running while the update runs, X will
> > crash. If you're running the update in a VT, X will crash but the
> > update will complete OK. If you run the update inside X, the
> > update process will die when X crashes and your system will be
> > left messed up.
>
>
> My machine at work where this happens isn't hybrid. It has three
> monitors spread over two Nvidia cards though, driven by nouveau
> rather than the proprietary drivers.
OK, so probably strictly speaking this is triggered by having multiple
adapters. 'Hybrid graphics' is by far the most common case of that
these days, though. Thanks for the note, I'll revise my blog post
(that I'm writing ATM).
I did not see such crashes on my hybrid laptop with
F24, X and
gnome-shell.
I mostly use the intel gpu, but some games run on the
nvidia-gpu with nouveau-driver.
I tried the "systemctl restart systemd-udev-trigger.service"-approach
from a "normal" terminal and from a terminal under nouveau and there
was not even a flashing of the monitor visible. I do not have a
secondary (or third ...) monitor connected, just the default laptop
screen.
Jens