On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > It happens that I press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace unintentionally. This sad > event brings the end of a long X session with all of its programs. > However on my current system it also causes much more instability.
There is always the DontZap option. > Symptom: I can't switch to a different virtual console. Any attempt to > do so aeems to hang the display. My system is in runlevel 3. So when > the X server ends it should go the console that started the session. > However it remains stuck on that terminal. I fail to switch to any > console. Is the screen in text mode, or graphics mode? If graphics, run mode3 or vgareset to restore text mode. Anything in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Maybe the keyboard is stuck in raw mode - use SysRq-R to return to cooked mode. > On the logs I see: > > Dec 10 13:24:46 alexander modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134 > Dec 10 13:24:46 alexander modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81 c 10 134 is apm_bios, c 81 is v4l. Does not seem relevant to the problem. > System: RedHat 7.3, XFree86-4.2.1-13.73.3, kernel 4.2.22 (self > compiled). Since you have X related problems, why not try a newer XFree86? -- Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
