Bug#483989: xserver-xorg-video-savage: system freeze while starting X

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jun  1, 2008 at 20:45:54 +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On Sonntag, 1. Juni 2008, you wrote:
> [...]
> > Is the machine completely dead with the plain 2.2.1 driver? Can you
> > ping? ssh? catch the log?
> 
> Yes, it is completely dead, open ssh connections trying to gather last bits
> from tail -f /var/log/messages stall immediately (unfortunately the 
> notebook has no serial connectors for a serial console), pings get no 
> answer - a hard poweroff is the only recovery.
>  
Hi,

could you try to find out where the hang occurs?  You can put some calls
to ErrorF() at various points in the driver, and add Option "Log" "sync"
in the ServerFlags section of xorg.conf.
If we don't manage to track this down soon, I'd be tempted to revert to
an earlier version of the savage driver for lenny.

Cheers,
Julien