[ivtv-users] ivtvfb causes shutdown procedure to crash

[Paul van Gerven]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Sander Sweers <sander.sweers at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

Well, there is no /dev/ivtvfb0, but there is a /dev/fb0.

lsof /dev/fb0 doesn't give a result.
sudo lsof /dev/fb0 gives:
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system
/home/multimedia/.gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.


> > Done. The xorg.conf I mentioned used nv.
>
> Is the kernel module still loading? I assume you get the same behaviour..
>

Yes, same behavior when shutting down. And yes, the kernel module is still
loading. I could get it out, I suppose.


>
> >> >> 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
>
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