On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 15:45 +0200, Witold Baryluk wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 3.0.0-3 > Severity: important > > I was booting about 10 times on this kernel and didn't have this issues. > Also I had no problem with my hardware. > > When I was in the middle of boot process, and when gdm3 just started > starting (Xorg already started, blanked screen, and showed > spiining waithing wheel), I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go back to the console > (I often do so, to look for the rest of the boot process, and to work from > the console). > > This times however, just moments after seeing console (gdm3 was still > initializing > and displaying its loging screen in the background), I saw warning > at 106 seconds on the screen (kernel log below).
Please report this upstream at <https://bugs.freedesktop.org> under product 'DRI', component 'DRM/Radeon'. Let us know the bug number or URL so we can track it. > I waited for boot process to end. > > After switching back to Alt-F7, some font glyphs was missing (not rendered). > It was missing glyphs in user logins menu and system menu (this with restart > / poweroff). > Notably glyphs a and i was missing, few others, but few other letters was > present. > missing glyphs renderes just like empty space (probably with variable size > like original glyphs). > Background color wasn't changed on this empty space (just like putting there > a space). > > Restarting gdm3 solved this problem. Strange. [...] If the kernel driver resets the GPU, it can presumably destroy data stored in the GPU memory by the X driver. If you restart gdm then you are restarting the X server which will then reinitialise this data. Ben.
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