-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always > while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's > pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that > still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually > register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. > > However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do > anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I > haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty > simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular > thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a > bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. > > When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but > I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that > sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). > > Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. > If you have physical access to the machine and have support for the Magic SysRq built into your kernel, you can kill the X server by pressing ALT + SysRq + K. This will kill all processes running on the current terminal. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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