Re: [gdm-list] Stability issue

["Rui Tiago Cação Matos" <tiagomatos gmail com>]

2008/12/20 Riccardo Tritto <riccardo tritto gmail com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a stability problem on my HP-Compaq NC4200 notebook running
> Lenny Debian GNU/Linux.
>
> Each time I power on the computer it regularly starts all previous
> services in its runlevel but it hangs with a black screen when starting
> X, and it doesn't respond to any command, not even with SysReq Alt+Print
> +B, and all I can do is to switch the computer off.
>
> This happens occasionally two or more times, then it starts regularly.
>
> It doesn't matter the kernel I use, the Debian official kernel or my
> custom kernel are the same.
>
> The X server always starts fine running the computer in text mode and
> then "startx".
>
> In the relevant /var/log/Xorg.0.log I can see that most of the times it
> hangs soon after loading the intel chip driver
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//intel_drv.so
> so I should guess there's something wrong with this (release of) driver
> and/or this release of gdm.
>
> My graphic chip is an Intel 915 GM, Xorg version is 1:7.3+18,
> xserver-xorg-video-intel version is 2:2.3.2-2+lenny5, gdm version is
> 2.20.7-4.
>
> Could anyone give me some kind of help?
>
> Thank you in advance.

If the problem is in GDM you might be able to get more information by
running it with debug output enabled. Check
http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.20/configuration.html#debugsection

Rui