Bug#604613: Status of this bug?
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>Paul Zimmerman wrote:
>> No go. I don't know how to tell if it has been updated since early
>> March, but the 3.2 kernel does exactly the same thing now that it
>> did then. It looks like it is booting ok, but when it gets to
>> loading the desktop it freezes with a black screen. Apparently it
>> runs into some sort of problem starting X on this system.
>Is the machine completely frozen? Does caps lock work? Does the
>magic sysrq key work? Can you access the machine using SSH via a
>wired or wireless connection? Can you get logs from this event, for
>example by using netconsole or serial console[1] or examining
>/var/log/dmesg, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and /var/log/syslog after a
.reboot?
>[1] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-bugs.html#s9.1.1
I admit I did not try these other options. If it wasn't going to boot to the desktop,
it was hung and I just did a hard power-off and selected the old kernel from
the GRUB menu when restarting. After removing the backported kernel I used
"shutdown -Fr now" to make sure no major problems were left in the file system.
It's fairly simple to go back and look at dmesg, kern.log, syslog and such. The Xorg.log
would be gone by now, after several restarts. Or would it? I'm not sure how many
iterations are kept as .z archives. But I'm not sure if I could figure out how to use
netconsole or serial console. It has to be connected to another machine running Linux,
doesn't it?
Is there some other bug page for this that I should send any reports to?
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