desktop suddenly replaced by full screen console

[fogelfish]

My system has become a bit unstable lately. I will be working when suddenly the desktop is replaced by a full-screen console, and typically what I see is like this:

Starting auditd
Starting Avahi daemon
Starting Avahi DNS Configuration daemon
Starting cupsd
Starting kernel based NFS server: idmapdexportfs: /etc/exports 1:
Neither ‘subtree_check’ or ‘no_subtree_check’ specified for export
“*./home/brian/Share/”.
Assuming default behavior (‘no_subtere_check’)
NOTE: this default has changed since nfs-utils versino 1.0.x

mountd satd nfsd sm-notifyBackgrounding to notify hosts…

Starting SSH daemon
Starting pwoersaved:
Starting INET services. (xinetd)
Starting PostgreSQL
ntpd: time slew +0.05016s
Starting network time protocol daemon (NTPD)
Starting Name Service Cache Deamon
Starting service at daemon
Starting mail service (Postfix)
Starting httpd2 (prefork) Starting CRON daemon
Starting martd
httpd2-prefok: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully
qualitied domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached

Welcome to openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64) - Kernel 2.6.25.11-0-1-default (tty1)

localhost login: _

Sometimes, but not all the time, I see an explicit error message near the end of this verbiage, such as

failed services in runlevel 5 smbfs

but the failed service listed has also been “portmap”.

I’m not sure there is any common denominator to what I have been doing when this occurs, though I am in the midst of configuring the system for remote desktop either in x11vnc or nxclient/nxserver.

Is there a good way for me to isolate what has happened JUST BEFORE I get thrown into the console.

BTW, the only thing I can think of doing at this point is to login, change to root, and issue a reboot command.

Thanks for helping out on this.

[malcolmlewis]

@fogelfish

My system has become a bit unstable lately. I will be working when
suddenly the desktop is replaced by a full-screen console, and typically
what I see is like this:
> Starting auditd
> Starting Avahi daemon
> Starting Avahi DNS Configuration daemon
> Starting cupsd
> Starting kernel based NFS server: idmapdexportfs: /etc/exports [1:
> Neither ‘subtree_check’ or ‘no_subtree_check’ specified for export
> “*./home/brian/Share/”.
> Assuming default behavior (‘no_subtere_check’)
> NOTE: this default has changed since nfs-utils versino 1.0.x
>
> mountd satd nfsd sm-notifyBackgrounding to notify hosts…
>
> Starting SSH daemon
> Starting pwoersaved:
> Starting INET services. (xinetd)
> Starting PostgreSQL
> ntpd: time slew +0.05016s
> Starting network time protocol daemon (NTPD)
> Starting Name Service Cache Deamon
> Starting service at daemon
> Starting mail service (Postfix)
> Starting httpd2 (prefork) Starting CRON daemon
> Starting martd
> httpd2-prefok: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully
> qualitied domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
>
> Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached
>
> Welcome to openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64) - Kernel 2.6.25.11-0-1-default
> (tty1)
>
> localhost login: _
Sometimes, but not all the time, I see an explicit error message near
the end of this verbiage, such as
> failed services in runlevel 5 smbfs
but the failed service listed has also been “portmap”.

I’m not sure there is any common denominator to what I have been doing
when this occurs, though I am in the midst of configuring the system for
remote desktop either in x11vnc or nxclient/nxserver.

Is there a good way for me to isolate what has happened JUST BEFORE I
get thrown into the console.

BTW, the only thing I can think of doing at this point is to login,
change to root, and issue a reboot command.

Thanks for helping out on this.

Hi
Your X server is or whatever you are trying to do with Xvnc is causing
issues. The screen you are seeing is VT1 (ctrl+alt+F1), try getting
back and seeing if the GUI is running ctrl+alt+F7.

Why reboot? If the GUI isn’t running, just restart X, or init 3 then
init 5, or rcxdm restart.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default
up 1 day 10:08, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

[fogelfish]

Thanks for the advice. It will makes things a bit easier.

I’ve been running Metacity (GNOME) as my window manager since I posted, and so far I have experienced no sudden breakdown of my desktop. I’ll revert to Kwin (KDE) after a while to see if it starts happening again and if so I’ll have a clue (though not much of one).