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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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> 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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Just find the offending process's id number and issue it a term signal. |
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