On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:13:44PM +0200, Martin Mewes wrote:
> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:13:44 +0200
> From: Martin Mewes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: strange X11 problem
>
> Hello,
>
> Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a very strange problem with X11. I'm running sarge with Nvidia
> > 2 MX400. nvidia-glx is 1.0.7174-4. The problem is that my desktop
> > freezes, so that mouse pointer still can be mooved (like old days of
> > win3.11 :) but nothing is updated on the screen. If I ssh to this
> > machine, than i see XFree eating all cpu, and it's state, acording to
> > "ps -aux" is RL. What does L mean? And I cannot kill X with SaK --
> > system attention Key.
It is magic SysRq key. See Documentation/sysrq.txt from kernel source
tree.
>
> I do not know what SaK is, but can't you kill X with something like
>
> # /etc/init.d/{xdm|kdm|gdm|??} stop
I use wdm, but if I try to stop wdm nothing happens, because wdm
doesn't respond to TERM signal, since X is in the strange state. I can
kill wdm with kill -9, but Xfree is still there
Best wishes
--
Alexei Chetroi
Smile... Tomorrow will be worse. (c) Murphy's Law
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