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On Sunday 03 June 2007 17:16, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always |
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> <snip> |
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> However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do |
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> anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I |
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> haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty |
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> simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular |
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> thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a |
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> bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. |
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> When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but |
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> I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that |
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> sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). |
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> Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. |
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> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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If you are using KDM you can always do a "killall X" as root and KDM should |
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bring it back up for you. |
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