Re: KDE Crash on logout

On Monday 28 July 2003 12:01 pm, Deepak Chawla wrote:
> hi John,
> I'm using a Sony Vaio PCG V505BXP laptop. The specifications on the

> >On Sunday 27 July 2003 10:36 pm, Deepak Chawla wrote:
> > > Hi Folks,
> > > I just bought a Sony Vaio laptop and installed Mandrake 9.1 on it.  I
> > > am having a few problems with it.
> > >
> > > 1. KDE crashes the system on logout. I read a few messages posted on
> > > the mailing list about this, but none of them had any information about
> > > any fixes. Currently, to logout, what I do is, at the command prompt,
> > > init 3 and then init 5. Does anyone know of a fix for this ? I need
> > > this badly

It sounds like a bug with DRI, XFree and the radeon chipset I had on my 
PCG-GRV550. The problem is instead of restarting X on logout, the dm service 
tries to respawn in the same X session. This is normally fine, but there is a 
bug in the XFree radeon driver and the DRI kernel driver that locks the 
kernel.  I placed a bug report during the beta but it was never fixed until 
after 9.1 was released. It is fixed in the cooker XFree packages. The only 
way around with out replacing XFree with the cooker version (I don't know if 
the cooker packages will work in 9.1 without some pain) is to kill X by 
either "service dm restart" or my favorite ctrl-alt-backspace. "Shutdown -h 
now" also works from the commandline. If you don't care about dri  3-d 
acceleration you can remove the "Load dri" from the "Module" section of your 
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and remove the Section "DRI" from the file. There was a 
long thread on the cooker mailing list in March-April about this problem.

Hope this helps.

--Chuck