SOLVED: System crash when swithing to text-console

2011-08-14 Thread Martin Lorenz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It WAS the KernelModeSet ... The moment I got the i915 driver to properly initialize it's framebuffer during bootup everything was fine again. Problem was, that the i915 driver was in the initramfs but did not correctly initialize the console-framebu

Re: System crash when swithing to text-console

2011-08-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:58:14 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: > Am 10.08.2011 16:07, schrieb Camaleón: (..) >>> I had some tail -f's running in ssh-sessions on >>> /var/log/{debug|messages|Xorg.0.log} >>> All I see is the "shutdown" Broadcast message and Log-entries. Nothing >>> more. >> >> Then it

Re: System crash when swithing to text-console

2011-08-11 Thread Martin Lorenz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OI! this is what I got over netconsole: [ 32.910913] [ 32.910914] HARDWARE ERROR [ 32.910922] CPU 2: Machine Check Exception:5 Bank 4: b20011000402 [ 32.910925] RIP !INEXACT! 10: {native_safe_halt+0x2/0x3} [ 32.910934]

Re: System crash when swithing to text-console

2011-08-10 Thread Vivek Periaraj
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: Then it can be royaly freezing (a soft kernel freeze) not just X. If you get no useful logs, you may need a second computer attached to one of the serial ports of your main system (the one that crashes) to catch something... Or you can use 'netconsole' to

Re: System crash when swithing to text-console

2011-08-10 Thread Martin Lorenz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 10.08.2011 16:07, schrieb Camaleón: > On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:46:09 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: > >> Am 08.08.2011 17:23, schrieb Camaleón: >>> On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:54:09 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> The misery begins as so

Re: System crash when swithing to text-console

2011-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:46:09 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: > Am 08.08.2011 17:23, schrieb Camaleón: >> On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:54:09 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> The misery begins as soon as you try to switch from X to console >>> either by Ctrl-Alt-F1 or induced by system shutdow

Re: System crash when swithing to text-console

2011-08-09 Thread Martin Lorenz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 08.08.2011 17:23, schrieb Camaleón: > On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:54:09 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: > > (...) > >> The misery begins as soon as you try to switch from X to console either >> by Ctrl-Alt-F1 or induced by system shutdown >> >> the monitor

Re: System crash when swithing to text-console

2011-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:54:09 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: (...) > The misery begins as soon as you try to switch from X to console either > by Ctrl-Alt-F1 or induced by system shutdown > > the monitor goes black and the sysem will not react to any input not > even to SysReq Keys How about ssh? C

System crash when swithing to text-console

2011-08-07 Thread Martin Lorenz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear experts, i recently got my wife a new machine and installed stable on it. At first run it was all smooth but after the latest upgrade, which i performed after installing a second HD, the machine won't shutdown properly. I tracked it down to the