Bug 263147

Summary:	On shutting down, graphics memory gets overwritten, machine halts
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Casual J. Programmer <casualprogrammer>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	openSUSE 10.3
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Screenshot of corrupted screen Scrrenshot of corrupted Screen on System Freeze Scrrenshot of corrupted Screen on System Freeze

Description Casual J. Programmer 2007-04-11 05:47:44 UTC

On an FSC Amilo Si1520 running openSuSE 10.3 alpha3 the following happens:

On shutting down ( From the GUI = Computer/Logout/Shut down or from a terminal = init 0 ) the upper part of the display gets overwritten with garble and the machine halts indefinitely. No keyboard access, no screen blanking, the only way out is power off.

The display shows boot time information from terminal 8 ( CTL+ALT+F8 ).

Not sure how to gather more information on this, frequency is every other shut down ( approximately 3 out of 5 ), no apparent harm is done.

This may fit in with bug 237676 and bug 252509

Comment 1 Casual J. Programmer 2007-04-11 05:48:52 UTC

Created attachment 130262 [details]
Screenshot of corrupted screen

Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2007-04-11 06:21:06 UTC

> This may fit in with bug 237676 and bug 252509
I think it's the best to wait until these bugs are fixed. Then set to ASSIGNED again.

Comment 3 Casual J. Programmer 2007-05-09 06:35:14 UTC

This (now) happens when logging out and back in a few times ( approximately 10 should suffice to run into the problem ). 

Currently running openSuSE 10.3 alpha4 with GNOME Desktop on  said FSC Amilo Si 1520 with Intel 945 GM chipset and GMA 950 chiptype with 128MB of memory ( graphics data reported by Windows XP )

Not sure what kind of log would be helpful, please advise.

xorg-x11 is 7.2-68
gdm is 2.18.1-9

Comment 4 Casual J. Programmer 2007-05-09 06:37:06 UTC

Created attachment 138421 [details]
Scrrenshot of corrupted Screen on System Freeze

Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2007-05-09 08:23:49 UTC

I get a timeout when trying to download the screenshot. Probably it's too big.

Comment 6 Casual J. Programmer 2007-05-09 10:14:13 UTC

Created attachment 138538 [details]
Scrrenshot of corrupted Screen on System Freeze

Trying jpg instead of png

Comment 7 Stefan Dirsch 2007-05-09 11:23:28 UTC

Could we figure out if it it's a gdm related problem by switching to kdm/xdm?

1) rcxdm stop
2) set DISPLAYMANAGER to xdm/kdm in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager
3) rcxdm start

This would be helpful for me.

Comment 8 Casual J. Programmer 2007-05-09 12:14:34 UTC

OK, 
setting to XDM logging in 20 times, logging out 20 times = nothing peculiar
setting to GDM logging in 4 times, logging out 4 times = freeze = only working key is power switch

Comment 9 Stefan Dirsch 2007-05-09 12:39:07 UTC

Ok. Then let's close it as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 252509 ***

Comment 10 Stefan Dirsch 2007-07-01 17:41:42 UTC

*** Bug 276928 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***