On 12-09-17 05:38 PM, Jason Apol wrote: > Matt - How does one "recover from the crash by switching to VT1"? > > I'd be happy if I can get to some kind of desktop and save my work. Ctrl-Alt-F1 will take you to a "Virtual Terminal" -- it's a console screen where you can log in just as you would at the gnome-terminal prompt. Then you issue those commands, and switch back to the running X session, which is running on VT7, with Ctrl-Alt-F7. you cna switch between the 6 built-in VT's with F1-F6; f7 is the default X session; F8 seems to echo system log messages unless you log in a second user, with 'Swtitch User', at which point a new X session will start on that screen.
Does that help? ps -- My success rate is not that high -- at best I usually end up with a barely-functional x system, try to save as much work as I can, then restart X with 'sudo restart lightdm', which destroys my X session but also resets whatever that display bug is. At worst the resultant session is just as nonresponsive as the original crashed one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/966744 Title: [i965] Resume from suspend leaves me with black screen or a screen of the desktop before it suspended. Compiz hung in intel_update_renderbuffers() from intel_prepare_render() from brw_draw_prims() Status in Compiz: Confirmed Status in The Linux Kernel: Incomplete Status in OEM Priority Project: New Status in OEM Priority Project precise series: New Status in X.org xf86-video-intel: Confirmed Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “compiz” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Precise: Confirmed Status in “compiz” source package in Quantal: Invalid Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Quantal: Confirmed Bug description: This happens intermittently. Sometimes upon resume, all I see is a black screen and the cursor. the mouse and keyboard respond (the mouse moves) but nothing changes. Switching to console and back doesn't fix it. Killing Compiz also does not fix the issue. Further, if one has password lock disabled on resume the user will be stuck with a frozen display of whatever was last shown on the screen before suspend. The mouse cursor still changes as you hover over various elements but the display is frozen solid. One can switch to another TTY via ctrl+alt+F1 but killing the X session is the only way to get back to the desktop. Attempts to replace compiz have been fruitless. Trying the 3.4 kernel also did not fix the issue. BTW, I haven nothing connected to the laptop when I resume and before suspend. This is a very annoying issue because the only way to recover is to reboot, which means all the open files will be lost. [UPDATE] It was discovered that switching to a tty, killing compiz, then invoking 'metacity --replace' would successfully switch over to metacity. Attempting to invoke 'compiz --replace' afterwards would put the state right back where it was (frozen screen, etc.) and output error messages saying something similar to "invalid configuration, this should never happen, you should probably raise a bug report about it". After killing Compiz again and invoking compiz --replace yet again I can get basic window management back (though unity --replace still does not work as it whines about unclean exit states). So one still needs to start over again to get it all functioning properly. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: unity 5.8.0-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell] CompositorRunning: compiz Date: Tue Mar 27 21:47:25 2012 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: precise DistroVariant: ubuntu InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120124) MachineType: LENOVO 32492HU ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-20-generic root=UUID=8afc43b9-4675-46b0-8bf8-49bfd422c2c7 ro quiet splash i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 06/29/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 6QET67WW (1.37 ) dmi.board.name: 32492HU dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6QET67WW(1.37):bd06/29/2011:svnLENOVO:pn32492HU:pvrThinkPadX201:rvnLENOVO:rn32492HU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 32492HU dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X201 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.2-0ubuntu4 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu35 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu2 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu7 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/966744/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
