On Wed, 13 May 2009, dante4d wrote:
i updated my arch linux yesterday and when i rebooted (kernel update)
and run startx, awesome just crashed.
<snip>
i can't quit it, kill it, use ctrl-alt-backspace or even
ctrl-alt-del. i just have to use the power button.
This bit is important so I'm quoting it...
Didn't I make myself clear? My system completly hung! Using awesome
for some time, I already got used to the practice, that after update,
awesome doesn't dig my rc.lua. It results usually in two things:
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In case 2, I know that I can use Alt-F1 to go back to the console,
check the messages there, go to console 2, fix my rc.lua, pkill -HUP
awesome, go back with Alt-F7 and see if it's fixed. Or I would while
updating inside awesome go for nested Xephyr session and provide pass
updated rc.lua to awesome there to test it. But what disappointed me
was that it didn't happen this time!!! I say again, awesome just
brought up BLACK SCREEN with X cursor without ANY POSSIBILITY I know
of (no ctrl-alt-backspace, no alt-f1, no ctrl-alt-del) to bring it
down and fix the config.
Since you just upgraded your system, are you aware that in new versions
of X.org you have to explicitly enable the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
combination (DontZap in xorg.conf)?
Also, when you find your system or X stuck and Ctrl-Alt-Fx does not
work, you can put your keyboard in raw mode and then hit Ctrl-Alt-Fx.
You can do this with SysRq+r. This has to be enabled too, you can put
"kernel.sysrq=1" in sysctl.conf.
By the way, this will also help you with really bad crashes as you can
proceed from SysRq+r to SysRq+s (sync), e (term signal), i (kill
signal), u (unmount), b (reboot).
guys, this is BAD. awesome let's me down once again...
These days Linux will freeze for a shitload of reasons. From broken
intel drivers and broken suspend cycles to broken applications like
Mozilla... Thanks to awesome you just learned how to deal with it :-)
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