[solved] X freezes on logout

[karmaking]

Hi.

Everytime I quit X (WM logout or ctrl-alt-backspace), it hangs and becomes irresponsive, with a frozen mouse pointer on a black screen, just right after everything has shut down normally. It doesn't crash everything, though, I can still shutdown remotely e.g.

I'm on xorg-server 1.5.3-r1 (xorg-x11-7.4), xf86-video-ati-6.10.0. It happens both my hosts, one with X1400, one X1200. Everything else X-related works fine.

Any clues appreciated.
Cheers
Daniel

[audiodef]

I've had this problem several times, on various machines.

I still don't know why. I've filed bug reports.

But since I had this problem during set-up and had no files to lose, I redid the Gentoo install from scratch and installed everything stable - no ~arch. This confirms everything CAN work. Then I add ~arch to make.conf and run a world update. This usually gets the latest-and-greatest up and running for me.

This is probably a slow and stupid way to do it, but I have more success with running ~arch this way than doing ~arch from the beginning.
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[karmaking]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, a complete system on ~arch is nothing I can afford here right now. Will try to install some more packages with ~arch around the X server.

[Carnildo]

Is there anything suspicious towards the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old?

[karmaking]

Doesn't seem so. These are the last lines:

[wol]

Same issue, same entries in log file. After quiting window manager (fluxbox or any other window manager), screen goes blank, keyboard is not found. I can log in from another box on ssh, but the only way to recover without doing that is hard reset.
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[audiodef]

wol and karmaking, do you have xf86-input-evdev emerged?
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[karmaking]

Yes, I do, and all X is configured via hal.

I had evdev-1.1.5-r2 and just upgraded to 2.1.1, and that actually did the trick! Thanks for the hint, audiodef.

Cheers, Daniel

[wol]

Wol hangs head in shame. I did manage to figure it out before your note, but still embarassing.
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