Re: My X freezes on cold days - how to get back control

[Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@gmail.com>]

> Hi,
>
>         When left overnight in dpms state, my Xorg stays in
>         that state ignoring any key
>         inputs when I attempt to use the system next day morning.  This happens only when the overnight temps
>         go low enough to trigger some issue. I
>         can login remotely, but cannot kill Xorg with any of the known signals. I tried using sysrq methods to
>         get back keyboard/screen
>         control, but that does not work either. Nothing other than soft or hard reboot works.
>     
    
    Last night, I tried to add a crontab entry to exit Xorg around
      1am to see if the console also locks up. It did not. However, this
      is just one day of testing. Will try doing this for the next week
      before concluding that this works. 
      
      Ramesh