[Klug-general] Fedora 8

[Andrew Miller (Spode)]

Rather than looking for anything "scary" look at the timestamp to see 
the last thing that was being processed before it hung. I.e, there won't 
necessarily be an error message if it's hanging the computer.

Mike Evans wrote:
>
> Andrew Miller (Spode) wrote:
>> I get a similar issue on my Sony. It ends up with the screen going
>> crazy. I've put this down to the fact I have a TurboCache Nvidia
>> Graphics card. I imagine the mechanism in which it shares the system
>> memory is a little complex.
>>
>> Have you tried looking in the gnome log files?
>>
>
> I've looked in /var/log/gdm at :0.log and similar.  Don't see anything
> scary in them although on startup there are some lines saying:
>
> ProcXCloseDevice to close or not?
>
> repeated 4 times.
>
> Nothing suspicious in the Xorg.0.log or Xorg.0.log.old unless I'm 
> missing something.
>
> Is there any other gnome log I don't know about?
>
> MacGyveR wrote:
>>
>> does this problem occur if you don't use X, eg shutdown from the 
>> console.
>>
>
> No - I can shutdown from a console OK, which is why I think it is 
> something to do with the desktop logout rather than shutdown.
>
>> it sounds like a gfx card driver or kernel module issue to me, 
>> chances are that the gnome shutdown script hasn't changed between 
>> versions at a guess.
>>
>> if you have acpi working (probably have by default), does the problem 
>> occur if you just tap the pc's case power button, as this  should 
>> cause a correct shutdown.
>>
> I do have acpi working - but it's not a shutdown problem as discussed 
> - it happens sometimes on "Logout" which should just get me back to 
> the Ubuntu login screen.  What's more it doesn't happen every time.  
> Earlier this evening it failed.  I've just gone through a logout 
> log-in and it was fine.
>
> Any idea where I find the script that runs when I do that?  That way I 
> can see what it's trying to do.  My guess is that it closes down some 
> stuff to do with networking because the desktop is running nm-applet 
> and network manager is running underneath.  Equally you could be right 
> in that it is trying to reset some display stuff.  Either way I 
> wouldn't mind putting some lines into it that write to a log and "sync 
> sync" between each step.  Then I might get a clue what the problem is.
>
> In fedora I know how to disable the network manager and use the 
> conventional network service to start my wireless card so I could give 
> that a go and see if it makes a difference.  I'm not so familiar with 
> the way that Ubuntu controls it's services, and the services GUI tool 
> isn't as helpful as the fedora one.  (For a change!)
>
> Thanks to both for your input on this.
> Mike
>
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