DSoD : Diagonal Screen of Death

[Kevin Martin]

On 04/08/13 15:09, Kevin Martin wrote:
> On 04/08/13 15:04, Beartooth wrote:
>>
>> 	On Fedora 17 and 18 I sometimes get a display like nothing else I 
>> know. It's made up of short horizontal lines, some in color, arranged 
>> into long diagonals that cover the screen, with about the angle of a 
>> backslash. The little lines in each group are parallel, and there's 
>> always a little space between every group and the next. 
>>
>> 	It comes up suddenly, on a key press or a mouse click.
>>
>> 	Once it comes up, it owns the machine -- nothing the mouse or 
>> keyboard can do (that I know of, anyway) has any effect, and I have to 
>> hit the reset button.
>>
>> 	I have yet to discover any correlation with any user action : 
>> afaict, some power of darkness arms the trigger, apparently randomly, and 
>> the next thing I do brings on the crash.
>>
>> 	Has anyone else seen this? Diagnosed it? Found any prevention or 
>> cure??
>>
> Can you login from the machine remotely and look at xorg.0.log, dmesg,  or any of the users .x* files to see if there's anything
> interesting there?
> 
> Kevin
> 
That would be "login *to* the machine remotely".

Kevin