f10beta frozen screen of death

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Oct 18 16:16:36 UTC 2008


On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 08:06:40 -0700,
  Jim Hayward <jimhayward at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Looks like nomodeset is a good work around for me. So far I have not
> seen any lockups since booting with it. I do see a corrupted screen, I
> think right when GDM starts to load, but once it loads the display is
> fine.

I think it is just displaying what was in the video memory before actually
drawing the new screen. I have been thinking about filing a security
related bug for this since it lets people see stuff from someone else's
session. In my case I see a corrupted copy of my background image after
a reboot before I have actually logged in, which shouldn't be happening.
The security risk is pretty low and modesetting has other issues, so I
have been taking a wait and see attitude on this particular bug.




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