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XFree 4.1 and console switching

Linux-ia64 Michael Madore 4 participants 4 messages Jul 9, 2001 – Jul 10, 2001

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Hi,

I have noticed that on some machines (Big Surs and Lions) switching back and forth between X Windows and the text console (via Alt-F1, etc) will cause the machine to crash. The screen is blank and the box is unresponsive both locally and over the network.

Has anyone else seen this?

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Mike Madore
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Yes.

I've seen my single B3 BigSur (BIOS 89b) crash most of the time I kill the X server (usually by logging out). I'm using kernel 2.4.3 (from the latest RedHat distro).

-John

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Hi,

I have noticed that on some machines (Big Surs and Lions) switching back and forth between X Windows and the text console (via Alt-F1, etc) will cause the machine to crash. The screen is blank and the box is unresponsive both locally and over the network.

Has anyone else seen this?

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Mike Madore
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Mike-

I've seen this problem on my BigSur also, still happening with C0 parts. I try not to do this very often so the pain hasn't gotten big enough to do anything about it yet :-)

Quoted 19 lines · Michael Madore

Hi,

I have noticed that on some machines (Big Surs and Lions) switching back and forth between X Windows and the text console (via Alt-F1, etc) will cause the machine to crash. The screen is blank and the box is unresponsive both locally and over the network.

Has anyone else seen this?

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Yes, I've seen this on my Lion Qual with SuSE 7.2a RC1 (2.4.4-SMP). It's an annoying "feature" when I start tests in KDE2 an switch to text console
with ALT-F1 (or ALT-F10 to check messages).

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Bruno
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Hi,

I have noticed that on some machines (Big Surs and Lions) switching back and
forth between X Windows and the text console (via Alt-F1, etc) will cause the machine to crash. The screen is blank and the box is unresponsive both
locally and over the network.

Has anyone else seen this?

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Mike Madore
Senior Software Engineer
TurboLinux, Inc.
(650)228-5203

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