Hang - cannot switch to console before Gnome login after latest update

[gobble]

Hi

Until my last update prompted by the update manager, I could CTRL-ALT+Fn to console and other TTYs before I logged in via gdm. Now the system hangs - screen blanks, cannot recover gdm login window either. Caps Numlock LEDs do not work, however ATRL-ALT-DEL reboots my system, so its not a complete keyboard freeze. Switching TTYs works AFTER login to Gnome.

Funnily the updates all related to KDE 4,1 not gdm which is my default. Copying dpkg.log for the 6th. I installed KDE 4.1 on the 3rd but I don't use KDE - have a bug report 254483 for other issues too.

2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

dpkg -s linux-ubuntu-modules-$(uname -r)
Package: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: base
Installed-Size: 15280
Maintainer: Ubuntu Kernel Team <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Source: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24
Version: 2.6.24-19.28
Provides: ndiswrapper-modules-1.9
Depends: linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.10.24)
Description: Ubuntu supplied Linux modules for version 2.6.24 on x86/x86_64
 This package contains modules supplied by Ubuntu for Linux kernel 2.6.24 on
 x86/x86_64.

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)

I use AMCCCLE 8.7. Attaching dmesg.log

TIA

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue seems to be rather an xorg or linux one

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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Hi gobbledegeek,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

[أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy)]

Hello,

  I have this same problem, but it does not always happen, actually it happens for a few times. Here are the cases:
1. Xsplash starts at boot, and I switch to a virtual console before GDM is loaded.
2. After I enter my login user & password, then I switch to a virtual console before my desktop is loaded.

In both cases the hang happens after I try to get back to X (by pressing Alt+F7), what I see is the xsplas screen and no keys work.

[أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy)]

Btw, this happens with karmic beta & karmic RC

[أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy)]

/proc/version_siguature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7

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