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

[dl]

I attached the required files.

additionally, i should point out that I did not get the nvidia driver from
the debian repositoire, so maybe my bug report might not interest you. (I
did not know that the bug was related to the graphical card
driver). NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.29.run was what i used to first get the
driver working and the instructions I found in the internet (which were
basically, use the right version of the gcc compiler -- I attached them as
well). I did so because last year I had no success in getting the nvidia
card working properly using debian packages.

I suppose i have to run that script again and recompile things, or could you
point out the right way of doing it: what debian packages i should use that
would not break with upgrades?

cheers
Daniel


On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>wrote:

> 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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