Bug#714929: vmwgfx freezes console with gfx_payload

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Subject: Bug#714929: vmwgfx freezes console with gfx_payload
From: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@birkenwald.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:52:22 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 20150427145222.22095.4412.reportbug@BADWLRZ-CLBSC01.ws.lrz.de>
Reply-to: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@birkenwald.de>, 714929@bugs.debian.org

Package: src:linux
Followup-For: Bug #714929

Control: found -1 3.16.7-ckt9-3
Control: severiy -1 important

Hi,

This still affects Jessie, I can easily reproduce it.

This bug makes it impossible to access the console of a VM without booting it and adjusting 
the kernel commandline, so I think this warrants a classification as important.

Bernhard

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