Sorry if I was not clear enough. If you want to use telnet, you need
another PC, and network setup to connect to the 'lock one'. If you can
ping it and did enable telnet server before to run the 'doggy' program,
you should be able to logon as you then do 'su' enter the root pwd, and
now you can ps -e | grep X or what ever you want.
The Hw/Sw solution is more when you only have 1 PC.
Andre
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [expert] RE: [Expert] How to fix an X lockup
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 22:11:39 +0900
From: Chris Spackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mandrake Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 06:45:09AM -0600, Praedor S. Tempus wrote:
> I will try the Alt-SysRq-K option and/or the Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-B combos next
> time but...
>
> I am not certain that even this will do anything since when Terminus goes
> down, it appears that keyboard and mouse input are no longer accepted - a
> really major X crash. I am not even able to do a Ctrl-Alt-F2, etc, to get to
> a new login and try to fix things from there, which has been a method I am
> able to use often with non-game-related crashes.
>
> In this extreme case, the system itself is still functional, however, since I
> am able to ssh into it and get a list of runnning processes with top. At
> this point, I have run "killall terminus" but the system response is "no such
> process" so it appears that terminus goes down and takes X with it without
> leaving any trace of itself running - thus I rather doubt the Alt-SysRq-K
> option would do much if the system does accept that key combo (this sort of
> lockup has made me question the whole utility of enabling the SysReq keycombo
> when compiling a kernel - so far, every time my system has bitten it due to a
> game, keyboard input of any kind has been impossible, including any SysRq
> input).
The only time i have ever needed the Alt-SysRq-K combo is when
Ctrl-Alt-F2
doesn't work - it works when nothing else will (i don't have another
system
to telnet in from). If Ctrl-Alt-F2 works, i just ps -aux and look for
either
x or even kdm. Kill it and it should pop right back with kdm (or
whatever).
But if Alt-SysRq-K doesn't work, can you do something like telinit 3
from
the telnet session?
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