On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 10:19 -0600, Andrew Brunner wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Joost van der Sluis <jo...@cnoc.nl> wrote: > > What happens if you kill Lazarus/gdb/your application when the desktop > > freezes? Do you really have to restart gdm? > > Most of the times, nothing but ctrl+alt+f2 responds. The entire > desktop goes into a halted state.
Yes, but then you have a new terminal, in which you can kill your application/lazarus gdb. (try killall -9 gdb) That probably restores your desktop responsibility. > Other times the entire laptop hangs > and I have to hold the power button down. Most often it is also possible to use ssh to connect to the machine and kill some processes. Joost. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
