Re: how to recover from an X lockup
On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 02:01, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 20:11, Peter Whysall wrote:
> > martin f krafft wrote:
> > > also sprach Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com> [2002.09.05.0322 +0200]:
> > >
> > >>- if you cann ssh-in....
> > >> if you can see X processes... kill those you dont want
> > >> or blinly kill X11
> > >> "init 3 ; sleep 5 ; init 5"
> > >
> > >
> > > since when does that kill X?
> >
> > It does on Red Hat :-)
> >
> > P.
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> On the Debian-User list, Red Hat's configuration is not necessarily a
> solution - as mentioned elsewhere, runlevels 2-5 are identical on
> Debian, and if you feel that method must be used, you need to switch to
> Single User, and then back to a preferred multi-user level (unless the
> runlevels have been locally customised to create one that doesn't run a
> display manager.)
I know that :-)
I was just pointing out that Alvin's advice was valid for another Linux
distribution.
Of course, it won't do anything at all to X on a regular Debian box.
Regards,
Peter.
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Peter Whysall
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