Since you have network and don't want to reboot the system with webmin,
do a telnet to your locked system and kill the processes that are
running under X... since you probably know the application that caused
the lock, kill that app first...
orlando
Praedor S. Tempus wrote:
> Thank you, I forget I have that app. I will try it next time.
>
> I suppose that since no one has offered a suggestion, that I really am left
> with having to reboot the system rather than restarting X? Having to reboot
> the system leaves a bad taste in my mouth - that is one of the reasons I left
> (and enjoy not using) windoze anymore.
>
> On Sunday 01 July 2001 04:49 pm, civileme wrote:
>
>>On Sunday 01 July 2001 11:01, Praedor Tempus wrote:
>>
>>>I have Mandrake 8.0 with kernel-2.4.4-6mdk, glibc-2.2.3,
>>>XFree86-4.1.0, and DRI-CVS. My system is an Athlon 700 with an ATI
>>>Radeon 32MB and OpenGL is working well - for the most part.
>>>
>>>I periodically run into a very windows-ish problem when I play
>>>opengl games. If they crash (Terminus is particularly bad at this),
>>>they often take my system with them, for all practical purposes.
>>>
>>>Just a few moments ago, Terminus crashed on me (again). When it
>>>does this, the screen goes black and my system no longer accepts
>>>keyboard input or mouse input. I usually have to hard reboot at
>>>
> [...]
>
>>Well your laptop should also be able to connect
>>
>>https://(ip address of your machine):10000
>>
>>login is root and pw is root pw.
>>
>>And from webmin you can force a peaceful reboot.
>>
>>Civileme
>>
>
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