On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:51:02PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:40:22AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > So it is true that even though Linux should almost never crash that X > > lockups like this happen and that there is no way to kill the X session > > from the same machine when it happens? > > Well, X runs as root so it's able to cause rather spectacular problems > :) > > I'm late to the thread, so please excuse me if this has already been > mentioned ... have you tried leftctrl-leftalt-backspace? That should > kill the Xserver unless the keyboard is AFU. likewise > leftctrl-leftalt-f1 should conjure up a console though again, if the > keyboard is AFU this might not work. At this point your best hope is > leftalt-sysreq (assuming you've compiled this into your kernel :) > > Barring that, external access is your best bet. You should be able to > pick up two cheesy ethernet cards and a cheesy hub for ~$50 USD.
Of course, if you are only linking two machines, you can eliminate the hub, use a crossover cable and drop the cost to ~$20 USD or less, depending on how cheesy a card you can find. I'm still using 10base2 (which is probably hard to find these days) and NE2000 clones to run 3 machines without a hub.
