On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:11:00AM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > Hi, > On my i386 box I run two X servers, one on vt9 (24-bit) and one on vt10 > (16-bit). From time to time I press the wrong function key when changeing > servers, like ctrl-alt-F11. ctrl-alt-F11 immediately causes the machine to > completely lockup, clocks stop, can't kill the X server, even the MagicSysRQ > key does not work anymore, can not log in via the network. Is this exspected > behaviour or did I manage to configure something wrong? Yuck. Sounds very nasty indeed. This could be a kernel bug, or it could be the X server freaking out and trashing the bus. All I can suggest is mouting you /var parition with the "sync" flag, reproducing this problem, and then seeing if the X server issued a death scream of some sort to the logfile. Otherwise I suggest you take this inquiry to xpert@xfree86.org; it's a bit beyond me. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny that Debian GNU/Linux | reading it will cause an aneurysm. This branden@debian.org | is not that .sig. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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