Re: XScreensaver locks up whole system.

1999-08-03 Thread Dan Everton
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:21:03PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: Kinda offtopic suggestion, but rebuild your kernel with the magic SysReq key option, then Alt-SysRq-K will Well, unfortunately, magic sysrq is already compiled in and did nothing. Tried everything from Alt-SysRq-K to Alt-SysRq-l.

Re: XScreensaver locks up whole system.

1999-08-03 Thread Dan Everton
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:22:49AM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:21:03PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: Kinda offtopic suggestion, but rebuild your kernel with the magic SysReq key option, then Alt-SysRq-K will Well, unfortunately, magic sysrq is already compiled in and

Re: XScreensaver locks up whole system.

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 11:06:18AM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:22:49AM +1000, Dan Everton wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:21:03PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: Kinda offtopic suggestion, but rebuild your kernel with the magic SysReq key option, then Alt-SysRq-K

XScreensaver locks up whole system.

1999-08-02 Thread Dan Everton
Just came back from watching TV to note that my X session had locked up and was unresponsive. The last thing on screen was the graphics displayed by the penetrate screensaver when it changes levels. Went to a friends machine connected on the same network to ping mine and try and telnet in to kill

Re: XScreensaver locks up whole system.

1999-08-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
Kinda offtopic suggestion, but rebuild your kernel with the magic SysReq key option, then Alt-SysRq-K will kill all prorams on the current VC. Running xscreensaver in the gdb debugger will let you find out where it crashed and what might have caused the crash. Try this: 1. Use apt-get source