Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Crash]
"Rich Harran." <95rmwh@eng.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Rich Harran wrote:
>
> > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 04:46:29PM +0000, Rich Harran. wrote:
> > > > My Debian system just crashed.
> > > [description]
> > >
> > > It sounds a lot like it may have been just a crash of the X server. Is your
> > > machine on a network? Could you still access it from the network?
> <snip>
>
> I am on a network, but didn't have physical access to other computers at
> the time (there not in the same building). Would an X server crash cause
> the total lock-up,
Yes. It happend today: For some reason KDE Beta 4 crashed and no
keyboard press was recognized, the mouse froze and no updating occured
on the screen.
> and is there anything I could have done to bin X
> without restarting?
Well, if you`re the lucky owner of a dump ascii terminal, you could
use that.
Another solution could be a process monitoring the serial port, where
you connect a simple switch. If you press this switch xdm is
restarted, or something like this.
> If I want to access my computer from another (if it
> happens again), do I have to do anything in advance at this end, or can I
> just telnet in, and logon as usual?
if telnetd (or sshd) is still running: yes.
This is what I did to resolve my problem: ssh onto the box, "su -",
"/etc/init.d/xdm restart" => recovery.
HTH,
Jens
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