[Eug-lug] one step forward two steps back-cont.

[Ben Barrett]

If you switch to a virtual terminal, or even have a remote shell logged in,
you will see a message about the system shutting down,
if it is in fact going to initi level 6.  Ha ha, anyone remember "PR#6"?
Think 6502!  :)

If you do not see such a message, then my completely uninformed guess is
that your system is getting tied up in suspend.
Also, if you watch the clock, and then go check /var/log/messages after a
hang/reboot, you might be able to better-correlate
events... you could also "dmesg|less" and tail it by pressing "F", in a
virtual term or remote shell, while that desktop loads/crashes...
(dmesg shows the kernel ring buffer, which flushes after reboot)

There should also be a simply way to tell if your system is properly
shutting down; something like finding out if a separate process
you've started is getting the term signal.  You could make a small script
that just loops, but that writes something out to disk when
the process is interrupted... beyond these suggestions, if nothing is
helping you figure out what is happening, I'll suggest jumping
into SysRq (which may or may not be enabled in your current kernel, I
dunno).

cheerio,

ben



On 7/1/07, ERock23175 at aol.com <ERock23175 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>    I edited the resolution lines on the xorg.conf file to have the
> monitors native setting (1440x900) and a couple of others. I've got a cle=
an
> install of 6.06 back on it for now as I was sick of it shutting down right
> after the desktop finishes loading. I'll make another swing at it today.
>
> The reason I said that I don't think it was the monitor (at all) is due to
> the fact that it performed the same behaviors as when the previous monitor
> was hooked up. The whole "failure to suspend" message was due to a default
> setting of "never" in the power management setting of the screen-saver. As
> to if it's just X crashing or the whole machine shutting down? I think th=
at
> it's shutting all the way down but the monitor gets this weird
> blue-and-white lined static, and I have to hard-restart it a second time
> before it tries to load up the sign-in screen again. Hope this helps to
> clarify what my issue is.
>
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