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070603 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> From time to time my X server will lock up, |
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> usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. |
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> It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. |
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> When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop |
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> is mouse motion. No clicks actually register |
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> and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. |
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> Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. |
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I've run into this too & had concluded it was minor defects in memory |
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brought about when the box heats a bit more than usual |
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(one memory bit's magnetism spills over into a neighbour). |
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I boot into a raw terminal, then start X with 'startx', |
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so your problem probably has nothing to do with Kdm. |
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Your experience & a couple of earlier reports on the list |
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suggest there is an obscure bug somewhere in X , |
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which would be very difficult to track down or even describe for bugzilla. |
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It seems unlikely to be a driver bug, as I've not changed cards recently. |
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I have just tested 'Alt-PrintScreen-K' -- press all simultaneously -- |
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& it blanks the screen, after which I can use 'Ctl-Alt-F1' |
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to re-access the TTY, when 'Return' brings a terminal prompt |
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& I can restart X with 'startx' as usual (super-fast!); |
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this depends on enabling the 'magic SysRq' option in the kernel. |
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Of course, I don't know whether it will work next time X locks up (smile). |
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