Just for laughs, the next time this happens, try hitting CTRL+ALT+F7. It almost sounds like your system is switching to a different virtual terminal (and #7 is the default that dm sets up on...)
If this is the case, however, I have no idea why it's happening... -Jason On Saturday 16 November 2002 10:37 am, . wrote: > Has anyone else had a problem with their machine dropping back from > gui to console after a period of uptime? I have a computer that I run > at init level 5 and use as my main home PC. However, I also have it > running several things out of cron, and performing server type functions > like samba and cups. It's an AMD XP 1400 with 512MB of RAM, so I don't > feel I'm asking too much from the system. > > Periodically, I'll come up to the keyboard and monitor and it will > be at a console login prompt. After a series of stopping and starting > xfs and dm, and running "init 3" followed by "init 5" seems to get me > back to a gui login. Then I can log back in and continue on. The > problem is, I have things running out of xterm windows and I keep > loosing my work when this happens. > > I'm going to make sure I'm patched to the latest rpms, but I thought > I'd post to this group to see if anyone else had seen this and/or knew > what the problem was. > > Thanks, > Cory -- ========================= - "You pay for it before you eat it? What happens if it's dreadful?" - "That's why." (Moving Pictures)
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