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Re: System crash when swithing to text-console



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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 goes black and the sysem will not react to any input not
>> even to SysReq Keys
> 
> How about ssh? Can you still login via shh?
> 

nope
all running ssh-sessions to that machine freeze the moment it tries to
switch to console.

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.


>> after about a minute or so the system powers off and immediately on
>> again to boot up normally (with the usual warning about HDs not having
>> been unpountet properly)
>>
>> I have no idea so far as to where I should start investigating. The logs
>> don't show any abnormality as far as I can say.
> 
> Maybe something related to the VGA card driver or KMS... is there 
> something interesting in the logs ("/var/log/syslog" or "/var/log/
> Xorg.0.log")?
> 

No, at least nothing that seems even vaguely related to the crash.

greets
martin

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