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Killing a hung X.



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On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 03:13:21PM +0100, David Baron wrote:
> Sometimes I need to trap out to a tty to kill something that is stalling the 
> Xserver, etc. Once I have done this, how might I get back into the graphics 
> interface?

Take a floppy disk, and walk six blocks to the library.  Download
putty[1] to the floppy disk.  Run putty from the disk and SSH to your
computer[2], and then /etc/init.d/kdm restart [3], pop the disk and
head out.


References:

[1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

[2] You need to know what your computer's IP is.  The easiest way is
    to go to http://www.dyndns.org/ and sign up for one of the freebie
    yourname.dydndns.org accounts.  Some of the long time readers may
    remember when ursine.ca was ursine.dyndns.org.

[3] Or whatever your display manager is...

- -- 
 .''`.     Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :'  :    
`. `'`     proud Debian admin and user
  `-  Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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