Re: x-window-system

[Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@gmx.de>]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:15:13AM +0200, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> > But it is still lacking stability. I have experienced several freezes
> > of the console server. (I could still telnet to my box.) Another
> > annoyance is that, once you have run 'console -d vga -d pc_kbd -d
> > generic_speaker /dev/vcs', you cannot exit console without
> > rebooting. Just killing the program freezes the screen.
> 

[...]
 
> I don't know what "killing the program" means.  If you mean "kill" then yes,
> this will leave your screen in a desolate state until we catch SIGTERM with
> marcos patch.  However, if you press CTRL+ALT+Backspace, the console client
> should terminate itself and correctly clean up behind itself.

[...]

The solution is quite simple: I had no idea that the latter option,
i.e. pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, exists at all. (If I didn't overlook
something, there was no mentioning in the announcement of the new Hurd
console, cf http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/HurdConsole ) So
while looking for a way to exit the console I tried killing all kinds
of processes which did't deliver the desired results.

Sorry and thanks for enlightening me.

Still, I think I have experienced instances of the console freezing
randomly (while I was using lynx) and not accepting any more keyboard
input. But I don't know if I can reproduce the scenario that provoked
this.

Johannes
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