Bug#617286: base: ctrl+alt+F# doesn't work/physical screen freezes, mouse and keyboard irresponsive

[Holger Levsen]

reassign 617286 nvidia-glx
tags 617286 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi,

please post your dmesg output and xorg logfile to 617286 at bugs.debian.org.


cheers,
	Holger

On Montag, 7. März 2011, dl wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: important
>
> Hi all
>
> I didn't know where to report the issue and I have no idea where it's all
> about. So the info below is a bit random. My system is updated.
>
> After a recent squeeze update (last week), our system got a bit unstable.
> We cannot move to the virtual terminals by pressing ctrl+alt+F# (where # is
> 1-6); in fact we can, but we get a black screen and no prompt. But we can
> still have multiple graphical terminals at ctrl+alt+F8 and ctrl+alt+F9 when
> multiple users are concurrently connected.
>
> The screen got frozen twice (only on the physical monitors). The computer
> became irresponsive to keyboard and mouse input: pressing num- or caps-lock
> would not switch lights on or off.
>
> I can use gnome normally throught vnc4server (on a different virtual screen
>
> :5902). (There's no keyboard/mouse and no ctrl+alt+F# throught vnc though).
>
> Xorg (user root) was found to be using 100% of one of my CPUs  when the
> computer was frozen.
>
> It first happened when the computer screen slept (and I thought it couldn't
> wake up), but today according to another user it locked while he was
> actively working on the machine. Just in case, I disabled some power
> management eco friendly options. Anyway, that does not justify the
> ctrl+alt+F# failure.
>
> We are using proprietary nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.29
>
> Sorry for the random bits of information, and any hints are welcome.
>
> Best
> dl
>
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


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