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Re: X hangs when trying to configure



On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 08:01:54PM -0400, Paul Galbraith wrote:
> I've tried running xfree86cfg, and XFree86 -configure.  Both cause my
> screen to go blank, and after several minutes wait, nothing else
> happens.  I've tried hitting CTRL-ALT-F2 (F3/F4, etc), as well as 
> CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE and CTRL-ALT-ESC to try to get to a terminal where I
> can kill the configure process, but nothing seems to work.  Things are
> still running, because CTRL-ALT-DEL cleanly shuts down and restarts the
> system.
> 
> Is there some magic key combination I can use to kill the configuration
> program so that I don't have to reboot my system every time this
> happens?

I had the same problem and "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" solved
my problem.

-- 
Gerard



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