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 > > > 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. > > > > > > 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 restart X in > > > gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find > > > documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the > > > usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but > > > nothing I see is about restart. > > > > > > When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, > > > but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my > > > impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 > > > hyperthreads). > > > > > > Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. > > > > > Just find the offending process's id number and issue it a term > > signal. -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > There's sometimes no obvious offending process. Sending a term to X > doesn't always do much when this is going on. You might try -KILL; that should do the trick. KDM should restart the server and revert to the logon screen, unless you changed that setting. > I'll have to wait till > it happens again to be specific. > > ++ kevin > Sorry, for some reason decided to send this message without scrolling down to see whether anyone else had yet answered; it turns out they did, and their answeres were much more complete. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
