"Rich Harran." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Rich Harran wrote: > > > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 04:46:29PM +0000, Rich Harran. wrote: > > > > My Debian system just crashed. > > > [description] > > > > > > It sounds a lot like it may have been just a crash of the X server. Is > > > your > > > machine on a network? Could you still access it from the network? > <snip> > > I am on a network, but didn't have physical access to other computers at > the time (there not in the same building). Would an X server crash cause > the total lock-up,
Yes. It happend today: For some reason KDE Beta 4 crashed and no keyboard press was recognized, the mouse froze and no updating occured on the screen. > and is there anything I could have done to bin X > without restarting? Well, if you`re the lucky owner of a dump ascii terminal, you could use that. Another solution could be a process monitoring the serial port, where you connect a simple switch. If you press this switch xdm is restarted, or something like this. > If I want to access my computer from another (if it > happens again), do I have to do anything in advance at this end, or can I > just telnet in, and logon as usual? if telnetd (or sshd) is still running: yes. This is what I did to resolve my problem: ssh onto the box, "su -", "/etc/init.d/xdm restart" => recovery. HTH, Jens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
