[elrepo] X Display locks up after upgrade to Centos 6.5

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 12/03/2013 07:37 PM, me at tdiehl.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded one of my Centos 6.5 machines to 6.5 using yum. After the 
> upgrade
> I am getting random lockups of the X display. The machine is still 
> running,
> I can ssh to it and do whatever I need to do including running things 
> like
> xeyes over an Xforwarding session but the display is locked.
>
> I have the following elrepo packages installed:
> (tigger pts14) # rpm -qa | grep elrepo
> elrepo-release-6-5.el6.elrepo.noarch
> nvidia-x11-drv-331.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
> kmod-nvidia-331.20-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
>
> (tigger pts15) # nvidia-debugdump --list
> Listing all GPUs.
> Found 1 NVIDIA devices
>         Device ID:              0
>         Device name:            GeForce GT 220   (*PrimaryCard)
>         GPU internal ID: GPU-e9abcfb0-e3fe-143c-00aa-4b69a4453c20
>
> (tigger pts15) #
>
> I am wondering if there is a problem with the nvidia drivers and the 
> upgraded
> Xorg packages?
>
> In looking at /var/log/messages, dmesg and the Xorg log I do not see 
> anything
> that gives me a hint as to what is happening.
>
> The problem seems to be triggered by mouse movement. When I am using the
> imouse in either Firefox or an rdp session, that is when the lockup 
> occurs.
> When working from a command line everything appears to operate normally.
>
> I am wondering how I can debug this to try to tell what package is 
> causing
> this.
>
> If someone is interested, I put the output of nvidia-bug-report.sh at 
> http://tntechs.com/nvidia-debug/nvidia-bug-report.log.gz
>
> Regards,
>
If it's installed, try removing the package xorg-x11-glamor or 
rename/remove /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/glamor.conf


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      Manuel Wolfshant       linux registered user #131416
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