Bug#607534: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686: crash upon calling 'startx'
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 16:33 +0100, Toni Mueller wrote:
> I wanted to start the GUI, but couldn't. After logging in, I usually say
> 'startx'. For this computer, which I have just installed, the command
> resulted in the screen going blank, immediately followed by a hard reboot.
This is likely the same underlying issue as 601341 and friends, which is
that the Xen dom0 kernel does not currently fully support DRI/DRM
graphics.
Patches which resolve the issue have been posted upstream, but I don't
know if the maintainer accepted them yet. The patches also need a
non-trivial amount of backport to the kernel to be used in Squeeze.
> The problem appears to occur only with the entry in grub.cfg that I
> marked below, but I only tried the first and the marked entry
> (...XEN 4.0"):
That is the only entry which would result in you running under Xen so
this is not surprising.
Ian.
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