Xorg crashes when switching runlevel in RHEL 7.6 system.

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • When trying to logout from a GUI session(which is started using the startx command) the console is becoming unresponsive. Abrt is reporting Xorg crash. The ssh session is working fine in this stage. Only the console is unresponsive. Users are unable to switch VTY.
  • The users are also able to reproduce the Xorg crash by switching runlevel from 5 to 3.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
  • xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.1-5.1.el7.x86_64
  • xorg-x11-drv-ati-18.0.1-1.el7.x86_64

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