Thanks very much for these tips. I'll try them out before I think of
reinstalling. The HTML is turned off with this post. I checked before I
wrote this post.
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From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 2:31 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] It Froze !
> Richard Salts wrote:
>
> > How can I get Mandrake while in KDE back up again after everything on
> > screen is suddenly paralyzed? How that came about I don't know but I
> > was trying to resize the 'Settings' menu dialog box of 'Kmail' when
> > all froze and I knew of nothing else to do but to turn computer off
> > and turn it back on again. Well, there seems to be additional problems
> > because the GUI couldn't come up and I got a few error msgs. Don't
> > know but what I might have to reinstall again. Just want to know so if
> > there is something I can do when all on the screen freezes up again I
> > might better know what to do. Thanks for any guidance. Richard
>
> Y'know, your longest wrapped paragrraph is quite wide when you send it
> out in htmal and I read it in plain text.
>
> Please Please turn off the HTML in your posts
> OK if you get a freeze
>
> ctrl-alt-f2 will get you to a console mode login screen
> You can login as root and run the command
>
> # ps ax
>
> And you may be able to see (from the letter D next to the process) which
> process or processes died. Usually it will be kfm or kwm
>
> As an example, consider kwm
>
> # killall -HUP kwm
>
> may get it running again. Check by ctrl-alt-f7
>
> If not, ctrl-alt-f2 goes back to the console and you can type
>
> # shutdown -r now
>
> Which will reboot and clear the problem.
>
> For a quick, "I'm terribly frustrated and on the edge" solution,
> ctrl-alt-f2, ctrl-alt-del shuts down and reboots safely.
>
> OK if you dropped out with a reset, try this
>
> 1. When fsck bombs, enter the root password
>
> 2.
>
> # e2fsck -c /dev/hdaW
>
> where W is whatever dropped you out, like 1, 6, etc
>
> Once this completes
>
> # shutdown -r now
>
> should allow you a "normal" restart
>
> Those freezes happen with kernel 2.2.9-19 and in root KDE with
> 2.2.9-27. I would suggest that you update the kernel or get 6.1, and,
> of course, minimize operations as root.
>
> Civileme
>
>
>
