Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
This is a home machine and I can recover by rebooting, but I'd like a
better way.
I run all my big cronjobs on sat night (backup, disk health...) and
sometimes on sunday morning, my screen is blank/black and not
responsive to the keyboard/mouse. Coming in from another machine, I
find X isn't running and I see page allocation errors in the logs.
Presumaby the machine has run out of memory and X was killed.
Is there a way to bring up the console login on the machine again?
Thanks Joe
Joe,
If you can ssh in, then you should be able to init 3 the box. Following
init 3, give it an init 5 and that may get you back to the console
login. I would check /var/log/message and /var/log/X.org.0.log
carefully as this is not a happy behavior.
Have you parsed through what you are running to see if you can find a
correlation in what is killing X? I would expect is every Sunday
morning if you are running the same thing on each Sat night, so the
inconsistency seems strange to me.
73
Matthew Lavigne
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