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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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> > 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 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 feckless. |
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> > |
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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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> > |
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> Just find the offending process's id number and issue it a term signal. |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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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. 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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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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