On 08.05.2012 20:22, Mark Murawski wrote: > On 05/06/2012 04:16 AM, Uli Schlachter wrote: >> On 06.05.2012 02:02, Adrian C. wrote: >>> On Sat, 5 May 2012, Adrian C. wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, 5 May 2012, Mark Murawski wrote: >>>> >>>>> I can ssh into the machine and it's running perfectly fine. >>>> >>>> You read the syslog, dmesg, Xorg.0.log and xsession-errors? >>> >>> I was reading the changelog and remembered widgets can block awesome >>> which would look like a "freeze" to you and would not leave a trace in >>> logs. >>> >>> Curl v7.24.0 changed behavior and waits for input indefinitely, some >>> Vicious modules use curl. Alsa' amixer can hang for PulseAudio >>> users unless they specify which card to use, Vicious volume module uses >>> amixer. >> >> But none of that would lock awesome *and* chromium. Clicking in chromium >> would >> work even when awesome is hung. >> >> Thus this really must be the X server being grabbed by a GrabServer command. >> That command makes the X server ignore all other apps except the one which >> did >> the GrabServer and apparently this one never does an UngrabServer. >> >> http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xproto/x11protocol.html#requests:GrabServer >> >> Uli > > Would there be some way to ssh in and unGrabServer?
Only the client that grabbed the server can ungrab it. The only thing you can do over ssh is to kill random processes until stuff starts working again. -- "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
