John Carter wrote:
Since X hasn't ever frozen solid on me (...)
On my system(s) X and various other parts of the system, particularly the Kernel did freeze regularly. It might have been my rather complicated setup but features like C-M-Bs and killall X are useful in these cases. Unfortunately they do not work for the interrupt handler and serious bugs in kernel modules. In those cases you have to restart everything unless you are using virtualisation.
For a decade.
I haven't been into GNU/Linux that long but the problems got worse when I tried to do things no sane person would ever think of. (See various threads on running multiple distributions at the same time &c.)
Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann
