Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-04-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Florian Kulzer wrote: > I think another advantage of using [xkg]dm is avoiding the > CTRL-ALT-F1, CTRL-Z attack against the X screen lock > (if you leave your computer unattended and somebody else could > walk along and use the keyboard). Kent West wrote: > Or just append an ampersand to your star

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-04-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think another advantage of using [xkg]dm is avoiding the > > CTRL-ALT-F1, CTRL-Z attack against the X screen lock (if you leave > > your computer unattended and somebody else could walk along and use > > the keyboard). > > So switch to vt2, lo

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Kent West
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > Dave Walker escribió: > >> That raises the question, though, about what happined to terminal 1. > >> Why won't it respond, and why does it appear to be comatose??? > > >> > If you don't want this to happen then you should use gdm or xdm or kdm, > then you just sta

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 19:59:35 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:40:54AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 17:29:13 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > > > > > > > That raises the question, though, about what happined to terminal 1. > >

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:40:54AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 17:29:13 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > > > > > That raises the question, though, about what happined to terminal 1. > > > Why won't it respond, and why does it appear to be comatose??? > > > >

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Dave Walker
On 3/31/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 17:29:13 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dave Walker escribió: > > > > That raises the question, though, about what happined to terminal 1. > > Why won't it

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 17:29:13 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dave Walker escribió: > > > > That raises the question, though, about what happined to terminal 1. > > Why won't it respond, and why does it appear to be comatose??? > >

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Dave Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/31/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Dave Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Running Gnome in terminal 1 as normally privileged user. > > > Initialized by startx. > > > > > > Switch to terminal 2 (CTRL ALT F2) and log

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Walker escribió: > > That raises the question, though, about what happined to terminal 1. > Why won't it respond, and why does it appear to be comatose??? > > Dave W. > > If you don't want this to happen then you should use gdm or xdm or kdm,

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:54:54PM -0500, Dave Walker wrote: > On 3/31/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >"Dave Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-- > Thanks, Andrei what you explained was exactly what I found. X > was not running in terminal 1 at all as I expected, but was

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Dave Walker
On 3/31/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Dave Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running Gnome in terminal 1 as normally privileged user. Initialized > by startx. > > Switch to terminal 2 (CTRL ALT F2) and log in as same user as in > terminal 1. No commands issued in termina

Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Dave Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running Gnome in terminal 1 as normally privileged user. Initialized > by startx. > > Switch to terminal 2 (CTRL ALT F2) and log in as same user as in > terminal 1. No commands issued in terminal 2. > > Switch back terminal 1 (CTRL ALT F1), and X h

Crashed X - Hard re-boot

2007-03-31 Thread Dave Walker
Running Sarge 3.1r5 (all up to date), kernel 2.4.27-2-386 and Gnome desktop. The following situation is repeatable, behaving in the same manner each time: Running Gnome