Hi -- I had "X" freeze up on me a couple of days ago, and I was concerned I was going to have to hard-boot the system (again!) and risk having filesystem errors. Then I remembered about the "Ctrl-Alt-F(x)" and the text windows, so I tried Ctrl-Alt-F3 and got a text logon!! Oh! There's hope still! I logged on as root, used ps to find the "X" program, and KILL'ed it. My text screen immediately painted a logon page, and then "X" was starting up again. Oh, my! I surmise that "runlevel" saw that "X" was gone, and started it up again. Not bad! I **didn't** have to hard-boot the system, and several things I had running in the background WERE STILL RUNNING! I don't know if this is the sort of thing you can use. It certainly has given a large boost to my becoming a Linux bigot (I'm a recovering OS/2 bigot, btw!). Take care all! --Paddock ------------
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