Screen Freeze

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/8/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Per-Anton Rønning wrote:
> > Hi again Andy,
> > Yes, killall -9 Xorg worked fine, I got back the KDE login screen, no
> > need to reboot. That is a definite improvement, so thanks! Then I won't
> > need to spend time waiting for the complete bootup procedure.
> >
> > I have also looked at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and dmesg. Since I have no
> > formal training as to what to look for here, I cannot identify any
> > funnies either.  Where can I find litterature to study what is really
> > going on behind the curtain? My knowledge of Linux is not that detailed,
> > I know (some of) what I need to know, but I also realize that I have to
> > know more. Could you point me in any direction as to what to look for in
> > the Xorg log, and the dmesg log? What would funnies look like?
> > I dmesg the last (several) messages are "audit" something, what it means
> > I do not know.
> > The very last entry reads:
> >
> > audit(1162987192.127:65): avc:  granted  { execmem } for  pid=2958
> > comm="thunderbird-bin" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0
> > tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
> > But if this is an ordinary entry or if it reports some  trouble I cannot
> > say.
>
> This was a common log entry in early FC5 systems. It's harmless but can
> tend to fill the log files. However, it indicates that you have not
> installed updates (specifically for selinux, probably not for anything
> else either) as the logging of these events was turned off in one of the
> updates.
>
> It's conceivable that installing updated X packages might fix the
> problem you've been writing about.

All of this sounds like an X or nv driver bug.  Its doubtful that
you're going to see a change of behavior without updating to a more
recent version of FC, and/or using the nvidia X driver.

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