On 6/4/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:16:52 -0700
"Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
>
Just find the offending process's id number and issue it a term signal.
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There's sometimes no obvious offending process. Sending a term to X
doesn't always do much when this is going on. I'll have to wait till
it happens again to be specific.
++ kevin
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