On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Kevin Diffily wrote:
> I have run into a problem that I don't want to resolve by a reboot if
> possible. While working in Netscape it froze to the point where I
> couldn't go to any other X windows or programs. CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE
> as well as CTRL+ALT+F1, etc did not get a response. I telneted to
> the server from another machine and typed in startx. Strangely this
> caused the Helix Gnome bootup sequence to restart at the terminal but
> then I get a blue screen.
>
> I have a few questions:
> 1) How do I get my command line prompt back from the terminal?
> 2) What are the commands to restart and stop X?
> 3) Is there an equivalent Keyboard Command in X/Gnome for the Windows
> CTRL+ALT+DELETE to allow one to kill running processes?
>
> Thanks
> Kevin
>
Telnet in as the user your were logged in when you started X at the
console, or as root. Then start killing the Netscape process. If that
doesn't fix the problem, then kill all the processes owned by that user.
You may have to use kill -SIGKILL <process number> to kill some of them,
but try a normal kill first.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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