On Sunday 03 June 2007 17:16, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always > <snip> > However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do > anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I > haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty > simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular > thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a > bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. > > When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but > I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that > sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). > > Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
If you are using KDM you can always do a "killall X" as root and KDM should bring it back up for you. -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free & Open Source Advocate & nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc
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