Control: reassign -1 gnome-shell Control: severity -1 important On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 17:03:46 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> Package: xorg > Version: 1:7.7+19 > Severity: serious > > Hi, > > Since upgrading to stretch, I can no longer switch to a VT - if I do > Ctrl-Alt-F1 the mouse pointer briefly changes back to that of gdm3 (I > think), then the entire machine locks up solid - unresponsive to ping > or anything, and I have to power-cycle it. > > The only thing I see in the log at about the relevant time is: > > Jul 1 23:25:54 aragorn kernel: [ 164.494985] gnome-session-f[4309]: > segfault at 0 ip b71c492d sp bf8128c4 error 4 in > libgtk-3.so.0.2200.11[b6ee7000+803000] > Jul 1 23:25:54 aragorn kernel: [ 164.497200] gnome-session-f[4318]: > segfault at 0 ip b721a92d sp bfafd844 error 4 in > libgtk-3.so.0.2200.11[b6f3d000+803000] > > ...and, when it happened again: > > Jul 1 23:57:54 aragorn kernel: [ 444.296161] traps: gnome-shell[4178] trap > int3 ip:b62e8e40 sp:bfb24fb0 error:0 > Jul 1 23:57:54 aragorn kernel: [ 444.296168] in > libglib-2.0.so.0.5000.3[b629c000+12a000] > > For me, at least, this is entirely reproducible, and makes it > impossible for me to use my virtual consoles any more (which I use, > e.g. for root sessions) :( > Reassigning to gnome-shell since that's what seems to be crashing. And downgrading since this doesn't seem to be such a common issue. If this is still happening it might be useful to gather a core dump. > The manual x.org.conf is carried from previous releases - I still have > a CRT, so need to tell Xorg about the monitor. > Unless the monitor is 30 years old that shouldn't be necessary. EDID dates back to the mid-1990s. Cheers, Julien
