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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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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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