[ivtv-users] ivtvfb causes shutdown procedure to crash

[Sander Sweers]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 09:39, Paul van Gerven
<baloedebruinebeer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, any program using the framebuffer should be stopped.
>
> I took me quite long to get around to it (holidays are over), but I created
> a xorg.conf that doesn't start a framebuffer at all. Strangely, when I issue
> the modprobe command, it still says it is in use. Perhaps that's the fatal
> error when I try to shutdown.

You can check which program is still using the device lsof
/dev/ivtvfb0. It could be the cause.

> Done. The xorg.conf I mentioned used nv.

Is the kernel module still loading? I assume you get the same behaviour..

>> >> It there any backtrace or error message just before it locks in the
>> >> kernel
>> >> log?
>> >
>> > Nope :(
>>
>> Maybe there is one after unloading the ivtvfb module.
>
> I still cannot see anything interesting in /var/log/messages.

And without it it is very hard to get any clue what is going on :-(

Maybe Ian or Hans have any ideas..

Greets
Sander