When I start my system, just before the (kdm) login screen appears I see pieces of pictures, icons, general desktop stuff all over the screen!
I get the same thing on logout.
Plus I’m also now having sync problems on reboot, ie it takes ages to read the initial grub stuff, then always has lots of replayed transactions.
From the startup log:
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } ***[/sbin/fsck.reiserfs (1) – /] fsck.reiserfs -a /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST9160821AS_5MA7HWM3-part4 *** Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x804 of format 3.6 with standard journal Blocks (total/free): 24774224/13785520 by 4096 bytes Filesystem is NOT clean Replaying journal: Trans replayed: mountid 19, transid 23448, desc 5914, len 4, commit 5919, next trans offset 5902
I assume it gets those “lost” image peices from the swap partition, but not too sure. And those replayed transactions have been happening since I initiated a new user (me) with an encrypted home.
Guess what: Me too. I wonder if this is a general issue with the current nvidia driver.
Tell me: Do you get a grizzly screen (black n white stripes n bits) upon a clean boot of your system that looks like a “scancode” too? …
Well, do you use Compiz Fusion? I assume this might be a general problem - apparently there seems to be no fix for this annoying issue at the moment.
If so, I’d be interested in a solution, too.
not sure if this applies, but i’ll put it out there for your consideration.
the new nvidia drivers (180.35??) seem to have some serious shortcomings and most have reverted to a previous version… since i don’t have a nvidia card, i can’t verify, only pass on what is being discussed in the places i monitor.
I think you might be right about the Nvidia driver, the sad thing is that the accompanying kernel update has (from the quote) hundreds of bug fixes.
Although this could be seen as a security risk (because you can see exactly what the last person was doing!), I’m more interested in the “replayed transactions” that I’m getting, it is a real pain!
I might have to start a new thread with that as the title.
I also see this with Nvidia 180.29_2.6.27.7-0.1_x86_64 and a Quadro FX770m
Especially the second head continues to show weird images, while the login-manager is correctly shown on the first screen.
The images shown are various fragments from previous sessions, for example, I also see bits and pieces from Windows Vista there. In one instance, an unmasked password entry form, complete with filled out password visible was shown to me after a reboot from Vista to Suse!
So I guess there is a small security risk, but after the laptop has been switched off for a few hours, all images are gone and only interesting patterns of grey are shown, depending on the off time (most often interlocked lying u-shapes). It is a wee bit scary that the memory is not wiped clean properly at shutdown though.
I’m seeing the same thing without compiz or and nvidia card, i have intel. There’s also a lot of coloured stripes going on when logging in or out, looks quite worrisome really.
I’m not sure but I think it is related to the kernel update that was just released. Earlier today I installed the updates, I always look to see what is going to be installed and a kernel update was in the list. After the update I started having the goofy desktop images as well. I was using the nvidia driver supplied from the repositories and mine was working just fine, until now.
I think it arose because I first installed OpenSuse 11.1 with KDE4 (updating from OpenSuse 11.0/KDE3) which did not work very well. After trying Gnome, I went to KDE 3.5. The stripy screen at login was still there probably because there were KDE4 leftovers in my installation. I removed them all radically and the problem went away. Maybe, you just have to ensure that you have an ‘homogenous’ KDE installed (i.e no remnants of the wrong version), and it would also work with KDE4 (KDE3 radically removed). Just guessing
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