Thanks for all the responses. In summary, if my Gnome session freezes, one way to unfreeze:
1. kill the at-spi-registryd process -- should unfreeze Gnome 2. if Gnome is working now, log out, log back in -- should restart at-spi-registryd I found some instructions on the internet for stopping and starting Gnome, I'll try those if the above fails: http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/02/08/starting-and-stopping-gnome-fro m-the-command-line/ To Steve Lee: My Gnome session is working fine at the moment. I tried typing Ctrl+Alt+F1, ...+F2, etc. This did nothing -- no new terminal session was created. I started VI and tried to insert those characters, they are not making it to into the system from what I can tell. It is possible that VMware is grabbing them. -Sam -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ariel Rios Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:30 AM To: Padraig O'Briain Cc: Quiring, Sam; [email protected] Subject: Re: [g-a-devel] An at-spi/gnome development how to question You need to exit from you current gnome-session and log back again into it. ariel 2009/1/20 Padraig O'Briain <[email protected]>: > It is a long time since I worked in that area. > > I think that you can just start it from the command line. > > Padraig > > On 01/20/09 16:22, Quiring, Sam wrote: > > Padraig, > > Thanks. Do you know how to restart at-spi-registryd? Since our work > is focused on at-spi, we need that process running. > > -Sam > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:42 AM > To: Quiring, Sam > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [g-a-devel] An at-spi/gnome development how to question > > Killing at-spi-registryd process will normally unfreeze the Gnome session. > > Padraig > > On 01/20/09 15:41, Quiring, Sam wrote: > > Greetings, > > If Gnome locks up, but I have an SSH (PuTTY) window open to my > workstation and it is still responding, what commands should I issue > to kill Gnome and restart it? > > Our at-spi applications are under development and we occasionally do > something wrong which causes the Gnome desktop on our Ubuntu to lock > up. We are not Linux/Ubuntu (or Gnome) experts, so to date we've just > powered the workstation (WMware Workstation) off and on and reboot Ubuntu and Gnome. > One problem with this is it takes a while. > > It appears to us that just Gnome is locked up, not Ubuntu. So we're > looking for a shortcut: just restart Gnome. > > Thanks. > > -Sam > > PS: is there any way to discover why Gnome/at-spi has stopped responding? > > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > > _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
