Re: those problems where the easiest thing to do seems to be to reboot...
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, CND OConnor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
> my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
> guess, so I do. I can always make some tea. Its very silly though I'm
> sure I needn't, so can someone suggest what to do when,
>
> 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know
> it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii
> characters you didn't know you had.
Don't do that :) - seriously, I don't know a good answer for this one but
I'm sure there is one.
>
> 2) X crashes (hasn't for a while actually) and dumps you in a grey
> screen with a mouse pointer and nothing else. (That would be running
> unstable, helix-gnome, enlightenment and gdm with mozilla to crash it).
> I've tried restarting the gdm daemon but that doesn't work.
>
gdm wouldn't do it. Try ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the X server; if you're
running xdm you'll end up back at the login screen, if you're not you'll
end up back at the console. IF that doesn't work, try ctrl-alt-F1 (or
actually Fanything-other-than-7) to get a console and kill the X server
manually.
Andy Perrin
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