Re: How to kill X?
On Sunday 05 October 2003 06:02, Neo wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:37, cr wrote:
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> > I just had a sieze in X, and Ctrl-Alt-F? had no effect,
> > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace was the only key combination that worked. Is there
> > any setting that will restore its function of 'kill X but don't reboot
> > the machine' or any other key combination that achieves that?
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>
> try loging in remotely and run '/etc/init.d/<gkx>dm stop'.
> (Fill in your running favorite display manager)
I had a long run of X siezures where I could remote in sometimes and
sometimes not. Sometimes I had to reset and fsck. No key sequences on the
siezed machine had any effect other than expressing my frustration.
FWIW, I changed my workstation from a machine with a crappy bare-bones video
card (Trident) to a machine with a less crappy bare bones video card (ATI
Rage something or another). That put a stop to the X siezures. Not an
elegant solution admittedly but I was able to run two desktops side by side
and compare stability. I was not able to find any direct evidence that
positively suggested that I should change video cards.
Good luck.
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Mike Mueller
324881 (08/20/2003)
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