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 actually register > and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. > Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login.
I've run into this too & had concluded it was minor defects in memory brought about when the box heats a bit more than usual (one memory bit's magnetism spills over into a neighbour). I boot into a raw terminal, then start X with 'startx', so your problem probably has nothing to do with Kdm. Your experience & a couple of earlier reports on the list suggest there is an obscure bug somewhere in X , which would be very difficult to track down or even describe for bugzilla. It seems unlikely to be a driver bug, as I've not changed cards recently. I have just tested 'Alt-PrintScreen-K' -- press all simultaneously -- & it blanks the screen, after which I can use 'Ctl-Alt-F1' to re-access the TTY, when 'Return' brings a terminal prompt & I can restart X with 'startx' as usual (super-fast!); this depends on enabling the 'magic SysRq' option in the kernel. Of course, I don't know whether it will work next time X locks up (smile). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
