Crash for 13.37 on T60

aloisius-a · 06-09-2012, 03:37 AM

I tried to update from Slackware 13.1 to 13.37 current (Kernel 3.1.13) a laptop ThinkPad T60 but, even if the release 13.1 operates with full satisfaction, when the release 13.37 is launched there is a crash with a stop and the display becames totally black.
I think the problem relates to udev because, if I make /etc/rc.d/rc.udev not executable the problem does not present, but obviously many services don't operate.
How the problem can be overcame?
A difficult it is that udev starts before syslog, so there isn't any trace of the crash in dmesg and in syslog.

All suggestions will be welcome.

aloisius-a

san · 06-09-2012, 09:37 AM

i'm not sure whether an upgrade from 13.1 to current is possible without causing any troubles,
neither am i sure if this will help, but could you try to boot with the

Code:

nomodeset

option.

at least the "screen blanks after udev starts" looks like a kms-issue.

onebuck · 06-10-2012, 07:06 AM

Hi,

Whenever upgrading a Slackware install you should follow information in UPGRADE.TXT & CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT for the newer version.

Alien Bob · 06-10-2012, 07:50 AM

An upgrade using slackpkg is only supported from one release to the next. Skipping a release will cause you to miss all the new packages from the release you skipped, as well you're stuck with all the packages which were removed from the release you skipped.
That as a minimum. There can be other things you have to do to your configuration - the best place to check that is the CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT for the release you upgraded to as well as for the release you skipped.

If you upgraded manually, then these CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT files will be invaluable anyway because they list the packages that were added and removed.

Eric

w1k0 · 06-10-2012, 12:37 PM

I use ThinkPad T60 with Slackware 13.37. I did the installation of the system on ThinkPad X60s and then I cloned it on ThinkPads T40 and T60. The only change I was forced to made in /etc/udev/ directory was to reset NAME="wlan1" and NAME="eth1" in 70-persistent-net.rules file to NAME="wlan0" and NAME="eth0" because of the following error:

Code:

SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device

I never tried to upgrade Slackware -- I always do the full installation of the new version.

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The only problem concerning video on ThinkPad T60 I encountered so far were color artifacts that appear in a specific situations. I solved that putting to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory the file 20-radeon.conf:

Code:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Radeon"
    Driver "radeon"
    Option "EXAPixmaps" "off"
EndSection

aloisius-a · 06-11-2012, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by san

i'm not sure whether an upgrade from 13.1 to current is possible without causing any troubles,
neither am i sure if this will help, but could you try to boot with the

Code:

nomodeset

option.

at least the "screen blanks after udev starts" looks like a kms-issue.

Your advice was very good and I solved my problem with satisfaction.
Thank you and best regards

aloisius-a