Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Escape a hung X session
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 22:33:26
Message-Id: 200905280033.14330.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Escape a hung X session by Mick
1 On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Mick wrote:
2 > On Monday 25 May 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Montag 25 Mai 2009, sean wrote:
4 > > > Does anyone know a way to kill an X session when it locks up?
5 > > >
6 > > > CTRL-ALT-Backspace and anything else that was tried does not kill the
7 > > > session.
8 > > > Sadly we have to pull the power to get back in.
9 > > > There is not other system at the location to get in remotely.
10 > > >
11 > > > Thanks
12 > > > Sean
13 > >
14 > > a) you use a 'new' xserver and got screwed by the 'new' feature that you
15 > > can not zap anymore (thank you Redhat!):
16 > > Section "ServerFlags"
17 > > Option "DontZap" "no"
18 > > EndSection
19 >
20 > How can one specify this feature without an xorg.conf? Can it be defined
21 > in the fdi file?
22
23 you don't you create a xorg.conf.
24
25 but you just find another reason why that change by redhat people was really,
26 really idiotic.