-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 15:45, Joshua Banks wrote: > Hello, > > I don't know what happened but at some point my KDE desktop completely > froze-up. Couldn't move the mouse but I could still "ALT+Tab" through > programs running at the bottom of the screen. Luckily I had a Console > session open and the only thing that I knew how to do was to do a > "shutdown -ah now" I powered back up and everything was fine. > > > What is the best way to get out of stuck KDE desktop session and > restart KDE when something in Gentoo freezes the desktop like that?
I've had something similar happen to me before. It was a quite long running bug in CVS whereby if I hit 'v' in kmail to see the message source and closed the window kwin/kded would eat up all system resources. To fix it, get a console by whatever means and kill kded and kwin, they will show in a ps listing as 'kdeinit: kwin' and 'kdeinit: kded'. Then, if your not at Konsole in the "frozen" session, 'export DISPLAY=:0' (or whatever X display the frozen kde session is on) and run 'kdeinit kded' 'kdeinit kwin' one will attempt to start the other I think. > As well which logs would tell me possibly why this happened? dmesg, or /var/log/messages *might*, but I doubt it. - -- Mike Williams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/p8xdInuLMrk7bIwRAsdQAJ41epbCtuwboJ9IlWd0MPKbmL+X9wCePpJu 2/JXzMOYnUcGELil6LtKKFU= =aL+6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
