Re: poff makes X hang

[<mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu>]

Jocke <jocke1s@tripnet.se> wrote:

|> I have a strange problem I haven't seen before.  When I type poff
|> my machine hangs. ctrl-alt-del doesn't work ctrl-alt-[<---] doesn't
|> work. All I can do is pressing the button to reboot.

and John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> responded:

|> Yes.  You are using a developmental kernel.  They're like that.

When I call poff, it doesn't hang the machine or the x-server, but
sometimes it kills the x-server. No error messages reported; I'm just
suddenly back at the virtual console that I started from. This isn't a
development kernel; it's 2.0.36 running in a standard slink
environment. The window manager is asclassic,

Jim