Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X server by pressing ALT + SysRq + K. This will kill all processes running on the current terminal. If you are accessing via SSH, you can still use this with echo k /proc/sysrq-trigger -- Neil Bothwick I can see clearly now, the brain is gone... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On 6/18/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X server by pressing ALT + SysRq + K. This will kill all processes running on the current terminal. If you are accessing via SSH, you can still use this with echo k /proc/sysrq-trigger Nice. However, I'm still wondering -- neither of my keyboards has a keytop labelled sysreq. What is it? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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On Monday 18 June 2007 12:22:59 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 6/18/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X server by pressing ALT + SysRq + K. This will kill all processes running on the current terminal. Hrm, I thought this killed ALL processes, but I could be wrong. Is that maybe Alt+SysRq+e or Alt+SysRq+i? If you are accessing via SSH, you can still use this with echo k /proc/sysrq-trigger Nice. However, I'm still wondering -- neither of my keyboards has a keytop labelled sysreq. What is it? My laptop has a specific key for it. IIRC, (my desktop is not in front of me), it shares a key with 'Print Screen'. On both (again, IIRC) it's usually shortend to just 'SysRq'. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 6/18/07, *Neil Bothwick* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X server by pressing ALT + SysRq + K. This will kill all processes running on the current terminal. If you are accessing via SSH, you can still use this with echo k /proc/sysrq-trigger Nice. However, I'm still wondering -- neither of my keyboards has a keytop labelled sysreq. What is it? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD It's the PrintScreen key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGdsTt0PM4px2/kjgRAklSAJwImm7vbI6Lq3F7zBNG4/sYeh4VIwCeKOdS rid/NxIHpobjbFEg4KkboIM= =H7WB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On Montag, 18. Juni 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Nice. However, I'm still wondering -- neither of my keyboards has a keytop labelled sysreq. What is it? print -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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On Monday 04 June 2007, b.n. wrote: Run into that too. Exactly same situation -KDE, OO.org, heavy graphical editing (resizing images in Impress etc.), mouse moving but nothing responding, etc... Identical bug. I attributed the cause to the Beryl SVN I'm always running, so I didn't feel entitled to complain. If you are not running Beryl, however, it would be nice to know more -so to find what bug is or to file one. I doubt it's beryl. I get similar symptoms every now and again using xorg-7.2, enlightenment-17 (latest cvs) and open source radeon driver alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:52:35 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. Just find the offending process's id number and issue it a term signal. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list There's sometimes no obvious offending process. Sending a term to X doesn't always do much when this is going on. You might try -KILL; that should do the trick. KDM should restart the server and revert to the logon screen, unless you changed that setting. I'll have to wait till it happens again to be specific. ++ kevin Sorry, for some reason decided to send this message without scrolling down to see whether anyone else had yet answered; it turns out they did, and their answeres were much more complete. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On Monday 04 June 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: 2) I have no clue how to find out what's causing the lockup. I'd love to, because I usually lose a bunch of work in the crash. top will tell you which process is hogging the resources and also let you kill it with the 'k' hotkey My X also locks up from time to time due to kde-type issues, the usual cause is konqueror and invaribaly I have to kill and restart kdeinit or even '/etc/init.d/xdm restart' in extreme cases. But I use enlightenment as the wm so that might not necessarily hold true for you. When using kde as the desktop, I've also had this trouble with kicker alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU left for a non-X login from another machine. This kind of lockup is usually an error in the video driver, forgetting to drop a software lock after some operation and then on the next operation waiting endlessly for the lock to be dropped. Or it gave the video chip a wrong command that never ends, while holding a software lock. In this latter case restarting X probably won't help, as the video chip is deaf. 2) I have no clue how to find out what's causing the lockup. I'd love to, because I usually lose a bunch of work in the crash. Check your video driver and see if there's a newer version available. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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070603 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. I've run into this too had concluded it was minor defects in memory brought about when the box heats a bit more than usual (one memory bit's magnetism spills over into a neighbour). I boot into a raw terminal, then start X with 'startx', so your problem probably has nothing to do with Kdm. Your experience a couple of earlier reports on the list suggest there is an obscure bug somewhere in X , which would be very difficult to track down or even describe for bugzilla. It seems unlikely to be a driver bug, as I've not changed cards recently. I have just tested 'Alt-PrintScreen-K' -- press all simultaneously -- it blanks the screen, after which I can use 'Ctl-Alt-F1' to re-access the TTY, when 'Return' brings a terminal prompt I can restart X with 'startx' as usual (super-fast!); this depends on enabling the 'magic SysRq' option in the kernel. Of course, I don't know whether it will work next time X locks up (smile). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:51:49AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Kevin O'Gorman writes: Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. /etc/init.d/xdm restart Well, yes. But be aware of the fact that - depending on the configuration, this *might* not work when issued inside an X session (via an xterm or similar) or may at least lead to... undefined behaviour ;). But it is safe to issue from within a virtual terminal ([Alt][F1-F6]). A magic key combination is [Alt][Ctrl][Backspace]. This immediately kills the X-Session (if it is not disabled in the xorg.conf) - GDM and KDM will then restart right away (KDM will do that forever, GDM only about 3 times) though Slim for example wouldn't. Regards, Aleks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
Kevin O'Gorman ha scritto: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. Run into that too. Exactly same situation -KDE, OO.org, heavy graphical editing (resizing images in Impress etc.), mouse moving but nothing responding, etc... Identical bug. I attributed the cause to the Beryl SVN I'm always running, so I didn't feel entitled to complain. If you are not running Beryl, however, it would be nice to know more -so to find what bug is or to file one. Thanks, m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. Just find the offending process's id number and issue it a term signal. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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070604 Philip Webb wrote: 070603 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually while I'm editing something heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. Your experience a couple of earlier reports on the list suggest there is an obscure bug somewhere in X . I have just tested 'Alt-PrintScreen-K' -- press all simultaneously -- Well today, I've had 2 lock-ups ! Both involved Epiphany -- which I find a bit faster more convenient than FF/Konqueror -- , the 1st merely locking the browser, which I was able to kill after going to another desktop with a Konsole running Htop, the 2nd just now involving a total lock-up as described above yes the 'Alt-PrintScreen-K' manoeuvre does act as a get-out-of-jail card: you have to re-enter the TTY with 'Ctl-Alt-F1', where there are a lot of msgs announcing that X has been killed you can restart it with 'startx' (my normal method). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. Just find the offending process's id number and issue it a term signal. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list There's sometimes no obvious offending process. Sending a term to X doesn't always do much when this is going on. I'll have to wait till it happens again to be specific. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
O/H Kevin O'Gorman έγραψε: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. maybe you can ssh to your machine and then: ps -A | grep X and see the pid of X... and then kill [pid of X]... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. Just in case your X-Server is still responding AT ALL you can always try hitting Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill it. This will work up to a certain level of hanging. Then simply restart it by typing startx. Otherwise ssh into your box and use ps -ax | grep X or ps -e | grep X to get X's PID and then kill it using kill. kill has a priority switch. So kill [PID] might not work. However kill -9 [PID] will kill about anything on the spot. If the -9-switch fails to kill X you are having more serious troubles. My two cents Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
-Original Message- From: Kevin O'Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:17 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Check out the kdm documentation. GDM has a few commands for handling that sort of thing, like gdm-stop, and gdm-restart. KDM might have might have similar. I am not sure. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X server by pressing ALT + SysRq + K. This will kill all processes running on the current terminal. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGY2gK0PM4px2/kjgRAuHkAJsHNoreMVfLQ+O9N8Nd9WFbzs5lHwCfZLZl lU7uNnnTQjLNFCK3kANELgo= =fSzd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
Stratos Psomadakis wrote: O/H Kevin O'Gorman έγραψε: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. maybe you can ssh to your machine and then: ps -A | grep X and see the pid of X... and then kill [pid of X]... Or, you can do a /etc/init.d/xdm restart . Either should work. On another note, you may want to find out why it is locking up. This should not be happening. Are you sure it is locked up or could it be that what you are doing is just using all the CPU processes and it is to busy to respond? Maybe some serious guru will come in with a plan. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather than actually trying to band-aid it. deface On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrote: Stratos Psomadakis wrote: O/H Kevin O'Gorman έγραψε: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. maybe you can ssh to your machine and then: ps -A | grep X and see the pid of X... and then kill [pid of X]... Or, you can do a /etc/init.d/xdm restart . Either should work. On another note, you may want to find out why it is locking up. This should not be happening. Are you sure it is locked up or could it be that what you are doing is just using all the CPU processes and it is to busy to respond? Maybe some serious guru will come in with a plan. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On Sunday 03 June 2007 17:16, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always snip However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD If you are using KDM you can always do a killall X as root and KDM should bring it back up for you. -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free Open Source Advocate nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc pgpIVr46BrfnA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
Kevin O'Gorman writes: Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. /etc/init.d/xdm restart Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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deface wrote: ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather than actually trying to band-aid it. deface On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrote: Or, you can do a /etc/init.d/xdm restart . Either should work. On another note, you may want to find out why it is locking up. This should not be happening. Are you sure it is locked up or could it be that what you are doing is just using all the CPU processes and it is to busy to respond? Maybe some serious guru will come in with a plan. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. If he does that, it will restart X. I have also seen where a few others made the suggestion too. This has always worked for me at least. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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On 6/3/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deface wrote: ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather than actually trying to band-aid it. deface On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrote: Or, you can do a /etc/init.d/xdm restart . Either should work. On another note, you may want to find out why it is locking up. This should not be happening. Are you sure it is locked up or could it be that what you are doing is just using all the CPU processes and it is to busy to respond? Maybe some serious guru will come in with a plan. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. If he does that, it will restart X. I have also seen where a few others made the suggestion too. This has always worked for me at least. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- Thanks for all the ideas. I'll keep them handy for the next time (it usually happens about once or twice a month). In the meanwhile, a couple of notes: 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU left for a non-X login from another machine. It has to be another machine because I can't even switch to a console terminal. 2) I have no clue how to find out what's causing the lockup. I'd love to, because I usually lose a bunch of work in the crash. 3) I don't see anything labeled SysReq on my keyboard, but it's associated with the PrintScreen key on my wife's box. Can I hope alt-printscreen-K will work? (I personally wonder about it since _nothing_ else on the keyboard works, but maybe the kernel can see it). Again, thanks. I'll say more when it happens again. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 6/3/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deface wrote: ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather than actually trying to band-aid it. deface On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrote: Or, you can do a /etc/init.d/xdm restart . Either should work. On another note, you may want to find out why it is locking up. This should not be happening. Are you sure it is locked up or could it be that what you are doing is just using all the CPU processes and it is to busy to respond? Maybe some serious guru will come in with a plan. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. If he does that, it will restart X. I have also seen where a few others made the suggestion too. This has always worked for me at least. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. -- Thanks for all the ideas. I'll keep them handy for the next time (it usually happens about once or twice a month). In the meanwhile, a couple of notes: 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU left for a non-X login from another machine. It has to be another machine because I can't even switch to a console terminal. 2) I have no clue how to find out what's causing the lockup. I'd love to, because I usually lose a bunch of work in the crash. 3) I don't see anything labeled SysReq on my keyboard, but it's associated with the PrintScreen key on my wife's box. Can I hope alt-printscreen-K will work? (I personally wonder about it since _nothing_ else on the keyboard works, but maybe the kernel can see it). Again, thanks. I'll say more when it happens again. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD 1) alt-printscreen-k should work 2) try 'killall X' via ssh and if that doesnt restart and bring the display back also do killall kdm 3) can you share a copy of you xorg.conf? -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free Open Source Advocate nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc pgpOC1UTHUTKQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On 6/3/07, Guillermo A. Amaral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: In the meanwhile, a couple of notes: 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU left for a non-X login from another machine. It has to be another machine because I can't even switch to a console terminal. 2) I have no clue how to find out what's causing the lockup. I'd love to, because I usually lose a bunch of work in the crash. 3) I don't see anything labeled SysReq on my keyboard, but it's associated with the PrintScreen key on my wife's box. Can I hope alt-printscreen-K will work? (I personally wonder about it since _nothing_ else on the keyboard works, but maybe the kernel can see it). Again, thanks. I'll say more when it happens again. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD 1) alt-printscreen-k should work 2) try 'killall X' via ssh and if that doesnt restart and bring the display back also do killall kdm 3) can you share a copy of you xorg.conf? Sure. I've done very little with it for a very long time. It still mentions XFree, for instance. But mostly it works. # File generated by xf86config. # # Copyright (c) 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), # to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, # and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the # Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL # THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # # Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall # not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other # dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the # XFree86 Project. # # ** # Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** # ** # Module section -- this section is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. # ** # Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Loaddbe # Double buffer extension # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection extmod Optionomit xfree86-dga # don't initialise the DGA extension EndSubSection # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Loadtype1 Loadspeedo #Loadfreetype #Loadxtt # This loads the GLX module #Load glx # This loads the DRI module #Load dri EndSection # ** # Files section. This allows default font and rgb paths to be set # ** Section Files # The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like .txt or .db). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together), # as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath # command (or a combination of both methods) # # If you don't have a floating point coprocessor and emacs, Mosaic or other # programs take long to start up, try moving the Type1 and Speedo directory # to the end of this list (or comment them out). # FontPath /usr/share/fonts/local/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ #FontPath /usr/share/fonts/TrueType/ #FontPath /usr/share/fonts/freefont/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ # The module search path. The default path is shown here. EndSection # ** # Server flags section. #
