Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-25 Thread Tim via users
Joe Zeff: >> And for those of us who don't use Gnome? There are two folders of >> that name in different places: /etc/X11 and /usr/share/X11 so which >> one do I look in? Samuel Sieb: > I wasn't aware of that /usr/share one, but local modifications are > supposed to go in /etc. /usr/share/ is

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/24/20 4:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/24/2020 05:14 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: ctrl-alt-backspace has been default off for a long time.  You can enable it with an xorg.conf.d snippet and/or there's an option in the Gnome Tweaks tool. And for those of us who don't use Gnome?  There are two

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/24/2020 05:14 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: ctrl-alt-backspace has been default off for a long time.  You can enable it with an xorg.conf.d snippet and/or there's an option in the Gnome Tweaks tool. And for those of us who don't use Gnome? There are two folders of that name in different

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/24/20 4:03 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 05/24/2020 04:51 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 11:10 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: Have either of you tried using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill server instead of switching to a different console? You have to set that up first (I always do), it

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/24/2020 04:51 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 11:10 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: Have either of you tried using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill server instead of switching to a different console? You have to set that up first (I always do), it hasn't been a default for a long time.

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 11:10 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > Have either of you tried using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill server > instead of switching to a different console? You have to set that up first (I always do), it hasn't been a default for a long time. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 10:02 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > BTW: Top posting good; Not on this list. > bottom posting good; Ok. But it's far preferred that you *intersperse* replies so that messages read coherently, straight through. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/24/2020 01:44 AM, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: On 2020-05-24 16:24, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: [trimmed] It's possible to get into console mode by pressing CTRL/ALT/F2 but I haven't been able to get the graphical system back without rebooting. [trimmed] About this last point. When I get X

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 11:30 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 10:13 AM Jonathan Ryshpan < > jonr...@pacbell.net > > wrote: > > > On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 01:00 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 5/23/20 11:24 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > > A number of times lately my system

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Roger Heflin
How much ram do you have and when you switch to console mode is it fast or does it take several seconds or more? On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 10:13 AM Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 01:00 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 5/23/20 11:24 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:> > > > A number of

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 01:00 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/23/20 11:24 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:> > > A number of times lately my system has partially locked up. When this > > happens, the system is playing an audio file (usually using rhythmbox) > > but is otherwise idle. Audio continues

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 19:54 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2020-05-23 at 23:24 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:> > > A number of times lately my system has partially locked up. When this > > happens, the system is playing an audio file (usually using > > rhythmbox) but is otherwise idle.

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2020-05-23 at 23:24 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > A number of times lately my system has partially locked up. When this > happens, the system is playing an audio file (usually using > rhythmbox) but is otherwise idle. Audio continues but the screen is > inactive: generally it is dark

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/23/20 11:24 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: A number of times lately my system has partially locked up. When this happens, the system is playing an audio file (usually using rhythmbox) but is otherwise idle. Audio continues but the screen is inactive: generally it is dark but sometimes it

Re: X server crashes when system is busy but server is idle

2020-05-24 Thread fedora
On 2020-05-24 16:24, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: [trimmed] It's possible to get into console mode by pressing CTRL/ALT/F2 but I haven't been able to get the graphical system back without rebooting. [trimmed] About this last point. When I get X stuck, if I can switch to a text tty then I kill the