Eric & Rosi & Jonathon wrote:
>
> I've been running Linux for 2 months now (used unix fairly often
> before). While most of it is rock-solid as people claim, I've had
> K-package and sometimes K-help totally freeze up the system. I am
> unable to use Ctrl-Escape , Ctrl-Alt-Del (coded to shutdown on my PC),
> or X-kill (If I can see the icon for X-kill, it is shadowed out and
> inactive. When I hit this case, is there any options left besides
> power-off and see how much got broken??? My current system is to just
> not use those 2 apps (And I also avoid using KFM to write to a windows
> drive more than one at a time, killed me there to).
>
> So, for these apps which seem to be killing me, is there anything I can
> do to save the rest of them, or should I keep with my current avoidance
> policy?
>
> Thanx
> Eric Aksomitis
> http://www.dlcwest.com/~jed/re_answer.shtml
>
> BTW, it's Linux mandrake-6.0, KDE 1.1.2, all applicable upgrades
> applied, no other majour modifications (although I am downloading
> Mandrake 6.1 image right now over the phone line, 8 Hours to go!!)
What's your video card? Have you tweaked XF86Config or left it in its
default, "non-aggressive" state? 99% of my Linux crash problems have
turned out to be XFree86. Note I make a distinction between the program
starting the problem and the program that is the problem -- kpackage and
khelp start it for you, Netscape and TkSETI started it for me, but it's
X that locks up the display and keyboard.
Anyway, if you have another computer a less drastic method of regaining
control is to telnet or ssh in and kill X. This may take a while since X
and whatever are using all the resources to talk to each other, so be
patient -- I've had the ssh session take ten minutes to give me a
prompt. But as soon as you're in, ps ax | grep X, get the PID, and kill
-9 [whatever].
Jack
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