Re: kill -9 -1 from non-super user in X hangs Debian
>> In article <[🔎] 33C39450.1D82@student.uni-tuebingen.de>,
>> Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>> >When I type "kill -9 -1" as a non-super user in an xterm, the system
>> >hangs. The mouse won't move, and I can't change to a virtual console. I
>> >don't know if I can still login via telnet, since I have no network
>> >connection.
>>
>> So? You just killed all your own running processes, including the X
>> server. The X server runs with an effective user id of root, but with
>> your real uid so you are allowed to kill it.
>
>Not a really helpful answer as it also locks up the terminal after X dies
>which is obviously a problem. I have tried this on my machine, but I run
I haven't actually tried it, but I would guess that the reason the
machine appears to lock up when you kill -9 the X server is that then
it doesn't get a chance to restore the video and keyboard to ascii mode.
The way to unlock the machine would be to log in from elsewhere and
open a new virtual terminal (for example: open /bin/login).
The only way to get this not to happen requires kernel hacking, and
it's probably not worth the effort. Every platform I've used behaves
strangely when the X server i kill -9:ed (though some are more easily
recovered).
/Anders
PS. The reason it doesn't lock up when you use xdm is that you don't own
the X server in that situation, it is owned entirely by root and thus
resets cleanly when your session terminates. It shouldn't even exit.
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