Bug#482369: xserver-xorg-video-intel: X fails to start: machine hangs with black screen & is unresponsive to pings

["Paul Metcalfe" <paul.metcalfe+debian@gmail.com>]

I upgraded from

linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64 2.6.24-6 -> 2.6.24-7

on Wed, May 21 2008 10:52:20 +0100 (yesterday).  But this does not
correlate with the increased failure rate: it was running with
2.6.24-6 relatively happily for some time.

I just did a test with 2.6.22-6.lenny1.  X (xserver-xorg-video-intel
2:2.2.1-2) failed to start with gdm; symptoms as reported earlier ---
black screen and completely unresponsive to ping :-(.

I can't see any other recent updates that should have affected this.
It really started failing enthusiastically on Tuesday (or at least,
that's when I did a clean reinstall of xserver-xorg-*).  Vaguely
related things I've had since the start of the week:

acpid 1.0.6-5.1 -> 1.0.6-6
acpid 1.0.6-6 -> 1.0.6-7
[really frequent failures start]
acpid 1.0.6-7 -> 1.0.6-8
gdm 2.20.5-1 -> 2.20.5-2
linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64 2.6.24-6 -> 2.6.24-7

[But why acpid should cause this I don't know?]

FWIW I don't have a splash screen and I'm not using the kernel frame buffer.

Why is the last thing it does when it crashes to close DRM ?

Hope this helps,

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pdm