Hello,

I just put slack 12.2 on a Dell Optiplex gx260 and made no changes at
first other than my standard starting iptables ruleset.

The first time I added a user, and started x from that user, I had botched the startx -- -nolisten tcp flag and it froze immediately but that
wasn't the prob as X continues to randomly freeze to an unresponsive screen, either starting, ending session, or switching to terminal.
Now, pretty consistently, if I ctr+alt f1-6 to a terminal it freezes black and I have to reboot.

I uncommented the plug and play auto detect mouse in xorg.config so the scrolling wheel would work but haven't messed with anything else and had the prob before that.

Ideas where to start?

I had the similar issues with 12.2 and a gx260. I tried everything I could think of, including posting here at LQ:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...lex-p3-706631/,

but, at the end of the day, I reverted to 12.1.

fyi, I run fluxbox, and as you can see by my thread and another thread that it links to, the problem occurs even without invoking X.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but if you uncover a solution, please post it, as I wouldn't mind upgrading the box to 12.2 again.

cheers,

I run 12.1 on my other puter. I solved the scroll wheel prob with no help
but this is to generalized and random to know where to start.

edit- read your thread, did you have a screensaver enabled or something?
Seems like any state change of the display will randomly freeze it.
Maybe we can narrow it down.

And for any ubergeeks out there, one more observation is that hitting ctrl+1-6 or back to ctrl-7 for xwindows session the screen flickers but
remains a lit-up black. Another oddity is that sometimes ctrl+alt+del will reboot and othertimes it won't.

I'm gonna log on sshd from the other putter and locally re-create the freeze and maybe still have remote access but any help would be helpful.

About what I expected.


I'm just rubbin it right now, looking at you usernames.