Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Ken
-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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-05 Thread Dan Farrell
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Aleksandar L. Dimitrov
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread b.n.
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Dan Farrell
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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

[gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
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

RE: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread burlingk
-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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Ken
-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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread deface
' /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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Guillermo A. Amaral
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Alex Schuster
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Dale
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Guillermo A. Amaral
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
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