Bug#583498: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 27 mai 2010 à 22:28 +0200, Thiemo Nagel a écrit :
> approx. 5 minutes after coming up from suspend, X crashed.  Digging through
> the logs, I've found the following:
> 
> May 26 19:30:47 eee gdm[1663]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
> May 26 19:30:50 eee acpid: client 1667[0:0] has disconnected
> May 26 19:30:50 eee acpid: client connected from 9974[0:0]
> May 26 19:30:50 eee acpid: 1 client rule loaded
> May 26 19:31:13 eee acpid: client 9974[0:0] has disconnected
> 
> Restarting of X resulted in a hang (blank screen and all, I had to resort to
> SysRq keys to shut down the system).  See Xorg.0.log.old for the log of the
> old X that was restarted by gdm and Xorg.0.log for the new X that failed to
> start.

Do you have any "vga=" stuff in your kernel command line? That would
explain such craches with KMS.

Cheers,
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