Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

On Montag, 18. Juni 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Nice. However, I'm still wondering -- neither of my keyboards has a keytop > labelled sysreq. What is it? print -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 6/18/07, *Neil Bothwick* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: > > > If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the > > M

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

On Monday 18 June 2007 12:22:59 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 6/18/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: > > > If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the > > > Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X serv

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

On 6/18/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: > If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the > Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X server by > pressing ALT + SysRq + K. This will kill all processes r

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:16:58 -0400, Ken wrote: > If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the > Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X server by > pressing ALT + SysRq + K. This will kill all processes running on the > current terminal. If you are accessing

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:52:35 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 > > "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

On Monday 04 June 2007, b.n. wrote: > Run into that too. Exactly same situation -KDE, OO.org, heavy > graphical editing (resizing images in Impress etc.), mouse moving but > nothing responding, etc... Identical bug. > > I attributed the cause to the Beryl SVN I'm always running, so I > didn't feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always > while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's > pretty heavily graphical.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

070604 Philip Webb wrote: > 070603 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> From time to time my X server will lock up, >> usually while I'm editing something heavily graphical. >> When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop >> is mouse motion. No clicks actually register >> and even the thre

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always > while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's > pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that > still wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

Kevin O'Gorman ha scritto: >> From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always > while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's > pretty heavily graphical. > When this happens, the only thing that > still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks act

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:51:49AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman writes: > > > Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. > > /etc/init.d/xdm restart Well, yes. But be aware of the fact that - depending on the configuration, this *might* not work when issue

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

070603 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > From time to time my X server will lock up, > usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. > It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. > When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop > is mouse motion. No clicks actua

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU > left for a non-X login from another machine. This kind of lockup is usually an error in the video driver, forgetting to drop a software lock after some operation and then on the next operation waiting endle

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On Monday 04 June 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >   2) I have no clue how to find out what's causing the lockup.  I'd > love to, because I usually lose a bunch of work in the crash. top will tell you which process is hogging the resources and also let you kill it with the 'k' hotkey My X also lock

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On 6/3/07, Guillermo A. Amaral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > In the meanwhile, a couple of notes: > 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU left > for a non-X login from another machine. It has to be another machine > b

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 6/3/07, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > deface wrote: > > > ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' > > > This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. > > > (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) > > > > > > I would recommend on finding out the root

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

On 6/3/07, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: deface wrote: > ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' > This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. > (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) > > I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather > than actually trying to band-aid it. > > def

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deface wrote: > ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' > This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. > (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) > > I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather > than actually trying to band-aid it. > > deface > > On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

Kevin O'Gorman writes: > Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. /etc/init.d/xdm restart Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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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 > > 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 r

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather than actually trying to band-aid it. deface On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrote: Stratos Psomadakis

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Stratos Psomadakis wrote: > O/H Kevin O'Gorman έγραψε: > >> From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always >> while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's >> pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that >> still works on my deskto

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always > while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's > pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that > still works on my

RE: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

> -Original Message- > From: Kevin O'Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:17 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X > > Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

> Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. Just in case your X-Server is still responding AT ALL you can always try hitting Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill it. This will work up to a certain level of "hanging". Then simply restart it by typing "startx". Otherwise ssh into yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

O/H Kevin O'Gorman έγραψε: > From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always > while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's > pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that > still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actuall