[arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues

[Don deJuan]

On 01/30/2012 04:23 PM, Martti Kühne wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 02:19:05PM -0800, Don deJuan wrote:
>> Well still nothing in the logs that even resemble any help for me
>> which is becoming frustrating.
>>
>> Though with further testing what I thought helped does not appear to
>> have. I was able to shutdown/reboot about 10 times smoothly. Then
>> after that each shutdown or reboot I tried went back to the old
>> behavior of having the red screen.
>>
>> I am back to having to use shutdown -hF 1 or longer wait to get it
>> to smoothly shutdown or reboot.
>>
>> Thanks again to those who have offered some insite so far, I will
>> keep trying more things to see if I can track this down, or fingers
>> crossed some miraculous update comes that automagically fixes me ;P
>>
>
> Just an idea change some of the shutdown scripts, explicitly unload the
> nvidia blob etc and maybe include some kind of "milestone" debug information
> in the scripts in /etc/rc.*shutdown ... you might just by accident find the
> culprit and get things right with a while kill -0 loop or sleep.
>
> cheers!
> mar77i
Thanks for more suggestions, I had nothing other than what is stock in 
the shutdown files. So i read through more things in relation to 
shutting down and openbox. I found someone in the arch forums having 
similar issues so I thought I would try it and it seems to be able to do 
everything in shutdown/reboot as I would expect. The weird thing is 
though when it executes it shows an error as not working properly when 
being called through shutdown/reboot but from normal command line it 
works as it should. I added

pgrep -P `pidof openbox` | xargs kill -s SIGTERM
sleep 5

it throws an error in regards to pgrep, I believe but it goes by so 
quickly I can not read the whole thing.

So not really sure whats going on but even though it does not work 100% 
properly it gets passed locking up with a red screen or just with a 
cursor. If I can sort this out further I will post back the results and 
mark this solved.

Thanks again for the help I have gotten so far.