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
> this point (VERY windows-ish) but this time round I had my laptop
> handy and was able to ssh into my locked up system. Once there, I
> had no idea what to do to get my system up and responsive to
> keyboard and mouse again - and get X back. I tried "killall
> terminus" thinking that terminus might be clogging the system but
> there was no terminus running any longer. I hoped that if I killed
> X then that I would at least get a CLI and be able to restart x
> from there. Unfortunately, the otherwise useful and nice "top"
> app is crap when you need to see what processes are not listed
> within your visable window - it wont scroll or page down so I could
> see what other processes might be ripe for killing and getting my
> system back. I ended up killing X from within top since it was the
> only relevant process that displayed and gave me a process number.
>
> Oops. Killing X REALLY wasted the system. I had to hard reboot it
> since it immediately quite responding to my ssh connection and
> wouldn't accept any more connections.
>
> Next time this happens and I am able to connect my laptop, what
> would be the best option in attempting to get X back? What command
> should I send to restart X/attempt to restart X?
>
> praedor
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
