Comment 68 for bug 16873

I just had something similar on an iMac G5 where it appears to lockup at the login prompt of gdm ... using the "nv" driver. Not sure what's up at this point. Could be related to the kbd bug that was found in the server recently and can cause memory corruption of various X server globals. One of the consequences was that it would clobber the some file descriptor and cause log output to be written to the video card config space which is deadly