Fedora crash

[Bill Davidsen]

Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> On Monday 29 July 2013 15.47.49 Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
>>> Would you expect a crash in this situation?
>>>
>>> I brought my laptop to work for some reason and left it running on
>>> battery. I also had Banshee running, albeith on low volume. I had to
>>> leave my place for a bit and when I got back the laptop had gone into
>>> hiberantion.
>>>
>>> Then when getting home, I booted it and found Banshee playing, and the
>>> screen all scrambled impossibly to see anything (large sheets of
>>> colourful squares).
>>>
>>> The only way to get out of this mess was to open a console and enter
>>> reboot as root. Is it some bad handling in Banshee/KDE/Fedora or
>>> something?
>>
>> I cautiously offer that it might have been the screen saver kicking in, but
>> in general video doesn't get properly initialized after hibernate. On many
>> machines it doesn't need to have the video hardware reset, so it doesn't
>> matter, and I'm told that using a vendor driver may solve the problem.
>> That's information, not suggestion, treat with care.
>>
>> One thing which may work, and has worked for me, is to switch to a text mode
>> console, and instead of logging in or anything, switch back to the graphic
>> screen. I think this resets the video back to a sane graphic mode, but
>> that's a guess. Another thing which has worked for me on some laptops is to
>> switch to a text mode before doing the hibernate. That implies you know
>> you're going to do it. Sometimes killing and restarting X will fix the
>> issue.
>>
>> May some of this be useful, these are tricks which have worked for me or
>> friends, hardware and drivers differ enough for me to help any more.
>
> Ah ...
> This all sounds familiar. Some of it I've resorted to before.
> I'm so rusty using desktop Linux =)
>
I used desktop Linux from the early days of the "MCC four floppy distribution" 
but didn't get rid of my last Windows machine until about 1998. I keep a VM just 
to test web pages against IE, but other than that 15 years without MSFT.


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