"vt: argh, driver_data is null" message hangs on shutdown

Colin Charles byte at aeon.com.my
Mon Nov 1 17:23:37 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 11:09 -0600, Rene Salmon wrote:

> I have fedora installed on my powerbook G4.  I get the message 
>  "vt: argh, driver_data is null" which hangs the machine every time I 
> try to do a "shutdown -h now" command.

Would help if you gave us what kernel version you were running (uname -a
output maybe)

Could be related to the console race patch -
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.3/2.6.3-mm1/broken-out/console-race-fix.patch
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