kernel / video problem
Some kind of email loop started on my system yesterday that generated a huge inbox (> 20 GB) on my system. It was detecting a relay loop and then emailing the error which triggered another one. Each email was larger than the last because it contained an account of all the previous errors. After cleaning everything up, I rebooted because some processes had failed due to lack of memory. After rebooting to runlevel 5, I could not get back to graphics mode, at least a visible graphics screen. Although I can sometimes get a graphics screen showing boot progress, it never gets to the splash screen. Everything from the text/console screens looks normal. I have not found any errors in the system log. I've tried switching monitors, and get the same result. Now I've noticed errors in my logwatch email for the last 2 days (same error twice): --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------ WARNING: Kernel Errors Present [<c01037ef>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 ...: 69 Time(s) [<c0313190>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x630 [<c01037ef>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 ...: 62 Time(s) Normal free:3224kB min:2776kB low:3468kB high:4164kB active:206364kB inactive:206236kB present:498944kx630 [<c01037ef>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 ...: 1 Time(s) ---------------------- Kernel End ------------------------- Because I had not previously noticed this error, I was thinking that the video problem was hardware -- I was starting to look for a replacement video card. Now I'm not so sure. What do these kernel errors mean? Where are they logged? Are the problems related (kernel errors & video problem)? Any opinion whether this is a hardware or software problem? TIA, Bill
==> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:37:22 -0500, Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net> said: Bill> Some kind of email loop started on my system yesterday that generated a Bill> huge inbox (> 20 GB) on my system. It was detecting a relay loop and Bill> then emailing the error which triggered another one. Each email was Bill> larger than the last because it contained an account of all the Bill> previous errors. After cleaning everything up, I rebooted because Bill> some processes had failed due to lack of memory. Bill> After rebooting to runlevel 5, I could not get back to graphics mode, Bill> at least a visible graphics screen. Although I can sometimes get a Bill> graphics screen showing boot progress, it never gets to the splash Bill> screen. Everything from the text/console screens looks normal. I Bill> have not found any errors in the system log. I've tried switching Bill> monitors, and get the same result. Bill> Now I've noticed errors in my logwatch email for the last 2 days (same Bill> error twice): Bill> --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------ Bill> WARNING: Kernel Errors Present Bill> [<c01037ef>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 ...: 69 Time(s) Bill> [<c0313190>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x630 [<c01037ef>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 ...: 62 Time(s) Bill> Normal free:3224kB min:2776kB low:3468kB high:4164kB active:206364kB inactive:206236kB present:498944kx630 [<c01037ef>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 ...: 1 Time(s) Bill> ---------------------- Kernel End ------------------------- Bill> Because I had not previously noticed this error, I was thinking that Bill> the video problem was hardware -- I was starting to look for a Bill> replacement video card. Now I'm not so sure. Bill> What do these kernel errors mean? Don't know, there's not enough to go on. Bill> Where are they logged? dmesg. Bill> Are the problems related (kernel errors & video problem)? maybe. Bill> Any opinion whether this is a hardware or software problem? Get the output from the 'dmesg' command and post it here as a follow-up. -Jeff
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:12:27AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
To: Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net> <snip>
Get the output from the 'dmesg' command and post it here as a follow-up.
-Jeff
Jeff, Here it is. Bill Linux version 2.6.16-1.2096_FC4 (bhcompile@hs20-bc1-4.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)) #1 Wed Apr 19 15:27:46 EDT 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001f740000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001f740000 - 000000001f750000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000001f750000 - 000000001f800000 (ACPI NVS) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 503MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000ff780 Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection On node 0 totalpages: 128832 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0 DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 124736 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000f7080 ACPI: RSDT (v001 INTEL D845GVSR 0x20040603 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1f740000 ACPI: FADT (v001 INTEL D845GVSR 0x20040603 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1f740200 ACPI: MADT (v001 INTEL D845GVSR 0x20040603 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x1f740300 ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTEL D845GVSR 0x0000010b MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 15:3 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x81] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] dfl dfl lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 1f800000:e0800000) Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c040a000 soft=c040b000 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes) Detected 2667.461 MHz processor. Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 505180k/515328k available (2131k kernel code, 9608k reserved, 754k data, 200k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5342.54 BogoMIPS (lpj=10685097) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 monitor/mwait feature present. using mwait in idle threads. CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000180 0000441d 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz stepping 04 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 1646k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Boot video device is 0000:00:02.0 PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO PCI quirk: region 0480-04bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1 PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P1._PRT] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x400-0x47f could not be reserved pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been reserved pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x480-0x4bf has been reserved PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:02.0 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 IO window: d000-dfff MEM window: ff800000-ff8fffff PREFETCH window: dea00000-deafffff PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64 apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1165882958.584:1): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks Initializing Cryptographic API ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring - Added public key FD06BDCFDB15BAC1 - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states) isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 845G Chipset. agpgart: Detected 8060K stolen memory. agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000 PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 12 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 2 ports, IRQ sharing enabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 ICH4: chipset revision 1 ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: HDS722580VLAT20, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4481B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 512KiB hda: 120103200 sectors (61492 MB) w/1794KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 hdb: max request size: 128KiB hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) hdb: cache flushes not supported hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide usbcore: registered new driver libusual usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 327680 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) TCP reno registered TCP bic registered Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI Shortcut mode ACPI wakeup devices: P0P1 UAR1 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB3 AC97 SLPB ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 346k device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SELinux: Disabled at runtime. SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.10-k2-NAPI e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xff8ef000, irq 17, MAC addr 00:0C:F1:F2:DF:C9 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 55128 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 hw_random: RNG not detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1 PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 19, io mem 0xffa7fc00 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 20, io base 0x0000e800 usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 21, io base 0x0000e880 usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 16, io base 0x0000ec00 usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: HID 413c:3010 as /class/input/input1 input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [HID 413c:3010] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1 usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice SCSI subsystem initialized Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usb-storage: device found at 3 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x0317 usbcore: registered new driver usblp drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver Vendor: eM Model: Bay Reader Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Vendor: eM Model: Bay Reader Rev: 1.01 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Vendor: eM Model: Bay Reader Rev: 1.02 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Vendor: eM Model: Bay Reader Rev: 1.03 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 usb-storage: device scan complete sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdb sd 0:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdc sd 0:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sdd ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] ibm_acpi: ec object not found md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Adding 524280k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:524280k ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). lp0: console ready eth0: no IPv6 routers present cisco_ipsec: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 4.8.00 (0490) kernel module loaded
==> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:40:53 -0500, Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net> said: Bill> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:12:27AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: Bill> > To: Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net> Bill> <snip> Bill> > Bill> > Get the output from the 'dmesg' command and post it here as a follow-up. Bill> > Bill> > -Jeff Bill> Jeff, Bill> Here it is. Well, that didn't actually list the problem, so given that the X server has problems every boot, I'd say the two are unrelated. Someone else mentioned checking the X server logs. I think that is a good place to start. -Jeff p.s. Nuked the BLU CC since I can't post there.
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:40:53AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
cisco_ipsec: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel. Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 4.8.00 (0490) kernel module loaded
Does the problem still occur after removing this proprietary kernel module?
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
After rebooting to runlevel 5, I could not get back to graphics mode, at least a visible graphics screen. Although I can sometimes get a graphics screen showing boot progress, it never gets to the splash screen. Everything from the text/console screens looks normal. I have not found any errors in the system log. I've tried switching monitors, and get the same result.
By "Graphics Mode", are you referring to X or a frame buffer console? If it's X, have you tried looking at the X server logs? The log should be found in /var/log, and would either be named Xorg.0.log or XFree86.0.log. It's generally pretty informative if you read through it. -- Greg Boyce
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:34:49AM -0500, gboyce wrote:
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:34:49 -0500 (EST) From: gboyce <gboyce@badbelly.com> To: Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net> cc: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug@wlug.org>, BLU Discuss <discuss@blu.org> Subject: Re: kernel / video problem
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
After rebooting to runlevel 5, I could not get back to graphics mode, at least a visible graphics screen. Although I can sometimes get a graphics screen showing boot progress, it never gets to the splash screen. Everything from the text/console screens looks normal. I have not found any errors in the system log. I've tried switching monitors, and get the same result.
By "Graphics Mode", are you referring to X or a frame buffer console?
If it's X, have you tried looking at the X server logs? The log should be found in /var/log, and would either be named Xorg.0.log or XFree86.0.log. It's generally pretty informative if you read through it.
-- Greg Boyce
Greg, I had looked at those logs. There's a fair amount in them, but no error (EE) entries. However, one thing comes to mind... I had been playing with screen resolution some weeks before this "event", and this was the first reboot. It's possible that I had bumped the resolution too high. Bill
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