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On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:52:35 -0700 |
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"Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx> wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700 |
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> > "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > > From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always |
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> > > while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something |
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> > > that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only |
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> > > thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks |
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> > > actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) |
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> > > are feckless. |
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> > > |
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> > > However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty |
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> > > much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the |
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> > > machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in |
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> > > gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find |
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> > > documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the |
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> > > usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but |
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> > > nothing I see is about restart. |
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> > > |
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> > > When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, |
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> > > but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my |
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> > > impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 |
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> > > hyperthreads). |
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> > > |
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> > > Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. |
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> > > |
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> > Just find the offending process's id number and issue it a term |
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> > signal. -- |
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> > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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> > |
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> There's sometimes no obvious offending process. Sending a term to X |
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> doesn't always do much when this is going on. |
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You might try -KILL; that should do the trick. KDM should restart the |
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server and revert to the logon screen, unless you changed that setting. |
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> I'll have to wait till |
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> it happens again to be specific. |
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> ++ kevin |
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Sorry, for some reason decided to send this message without scrolling |
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down to see whether anyone else had yet answered; it turns out they |
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did, and their answeres were much more complete. |
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