Hi After I dist-upgraded my unstable box 2006-02-12, xserver-xorg went from 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 to 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 and hangs after starting gdm/x on boot - not responding to console-switch or anything from the keyboard.
Kernel: precompiled Linux 2.4.27-2-686 Graphics: Matrox G400 I (hard) rebooted into single-user mode and found the kernel Oops below in /var/log/messages. Downgrading xserver-xorg and xserver-common to 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 circumvents the problem. //Jan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: [drm] AGP 0.99 Aperture @ 0xe4000000 64MB Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: [drm] Initialized mga 3.0.2 20010321 on minor 0 Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: printing eip: Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: e0bb0820 Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: Oops: 0000 Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: CPU: 0 Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: EIP: 0010:[<e0bb0820>] Not tainted Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: EFLAGS: 00013202 Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: eax: 0001f0a8 ebx: 000000c0 ecx: e0ba8000 e dx: decd7de0 Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: esi: cf8a4140 edi: cf8a4140 ebp: db905840 e sp: df71df20 Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: Process Xorg (pid: 1027, stackpage=df71d000) Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: Stack: df71df84 ffffffeb ffffffed 00000000 cf8a41 40 db905840 dfff8420 c013ecae Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: db905840 cf8a4140 cf8a4140 db905840 000000 00 c013d86d db905840 cf8a4140 Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: 00008002 d29d9000 40194ff4 bffff5e8 c013d7 98 cf89b360 dfff8420 00008002 Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: Call Trace: [chrdev_open+94/112] [dentry_open+ 205/464] [filp_open+104/112] [sys_open+83/160] [system_call+51/56] Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: Feb 13 20:35:53 Harboe kernel: Code: 8b 08 89 c2 8b 77 10 85 c9 75 75 89 57 10 8 b 42 20 85 c0 75 Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at vir tual address 0001f0a8 Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: printing eip: Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: e0bb0820 Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: Oops: 0000 Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: CPU: 0 Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: EIP: 0010:[<e0bb0820>] Not tainted Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: EFLAGS: 00013202 Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: eax: 0001f0a8 ebx: 000000c0 ecx: e0ba8000 e dx: decd7de0 Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: esi: cf8a4240 edi: cf8a4240 ebp: db905840 e sp: df71df20 Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: Process Xorg (pid: 1050, stackpage=df71d000) Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: Stack: df71df84 ffffffeb ffffffed 00000000 cf8a42 40 db905840 dfff8420 c013ecae Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: db905840 cf8a4240 cf8a4240 db905840 000000 00 c013d86d db905840 cf8a4240 Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: 00008002 de099000 40194ff4 bffff5e8 c013d7 98 cf89b360 dfff8420 00008002 Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: Call Trace: [chrdev_open+94/112] [dentry_open+ 205/464] [filp_open+104/112] [sys_open+83/160] [system_call+51/56] Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: Feb 13 20:35:57 Harboe kernel: Code: 8b 08 89 c2 8b 77 10 85 c9 75 75 89 57 10 8b 42 20 85 c0 75 Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0001f0a8 Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: printing eip: Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: e0bb0820 Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: Oops: 0000 Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: CPU: 0 Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: EIP: 0010:[<e0bb0820>] Not tainted Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: EFLAGS: 00013202 Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: eax: 0001f0a8 ebx: 000000c0 ecx: e0ba8000 e dx: decd7de0 Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: esi: cf8a42c0 edi: cf8a42c0 ebp: db905840 e sp: df71df20 Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: Process Xorg (pid: 1052, stackpage=df71d000) Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: Stack: df71df84 ffffffeb ffffffed 00000000 cf8a42 c0 db905840 dfff8420 c013ecae Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: db905840 cf8a42c0 cf8a42c0 db905840 000000 00 c013d86d db905840 cf8a42c0 Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: 00008002 da00c000 40194ff4 bffff5e8 c013d7 98 cf89b360 dfff8420 00008002 Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: Call Trace: [chrdev_open+94/112] [dentry_open+ 205/464] [filp_open+104/112] [sys_open+83/160] [system_call+51/56] Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: Feb 13 20:36:01 Harboe kernel: Code: 8b 08 89 c2 8b 77 10 85 c9 75 75 89 57 10 8 b 42 20 85 c0 75 Feb 13 20:55:35 Harboe -- MARK -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]