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' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' |
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This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. |
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(gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) |
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I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, |
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rather than actually trying to band-aid it. |
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deface |
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On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> Stratos Psomadakis wrote: |
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>> O/H Kevin O'Gorman έγραψε: |
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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 |
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>>> pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that |
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>>> still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually |
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>>> register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are |
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>>> 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 |
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>>> anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, |
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>>> because I |
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>>> haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's |
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>>> 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 |
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>>> 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, |
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>>> but |
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>>> I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression |
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>>> that |
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>>> sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 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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>>> |
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>> maybe you can ssh to your machine and then: |
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>> ps -A | grep X |
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>> and see the pid of X... |
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>> and then kill [pid of X]... |
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> Or, you can do a /etc/init.d/xdm restart . Either should work. |
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> On another note, you may want to find out why it is locking up. |
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> This should not be happening. Are you sure it is locked up or |
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> could it be that what you are doing is just using all the CPU |
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> processes and it is to busy to respond? |
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> Maybe some serious guru will come in with a plan. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) :-) |
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> -- |
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> www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 |
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> Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. |
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