walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:45:43 -0500 > cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Hi. I am having a very bad problem which makes gnome unusable -- > > once I get into the virtual console where the xserver is displaying > > gnome, console 12 in my case, I can never get out of that console -- > > control-alt-f1 or anything does not work. If I try to ssh in from > > somewhere else, I cannot stop gdm because the x server will not stop > > -- even kill -9 will not stop it and I have to reboot the system. > > The part about kill -9 failing is exactly the problem I had with the > 3.18.x kernel series a while ago. I know this problem must be hardware > specific because some distros are still shipping 3.18 kernels as the > default, and I'll bet others in this mailing list are using it without > problems too. I had some scary problems with that kernel version > that were very difficult to diagnose until I just rebooted with an > older kernel and the scary problems vanished. The 4.2 series seems > okay so far on my VMs. (Even my gentoo VMs had some minor problems with > 3.18.x)
I am using 4.1.9 from gentoo sources -- do I need to downgrade maybe the server and nvidia-drivers? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com