On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Tony Nugent wrote:
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:01:26 +1000
> From: Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Linux X11 Email List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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> Subject: Re: X freeze and StarOffice 5 install
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On Tue Nov 10 1998 at 21:38, Tony Nugent wrote:
> > (1) X freeze
> > ============
> >
> > Is there an elegant way of regaining control of the keyboard when a X app
> > crashes (see below) and leaves the X console frozen and the keyboard in an
> > unusable state in raw mode?
> >
> > I have SAK (Secure Attention Key) mapped to Ctrl-Alt-PrintScreen, but even
> > this didn't work (when it usually does). I ended up remotely logging in,
> > but still couldn't bring sanity to the console. So I had little choice but
> > to uncerimoniously issue a reboot command :-(
> >
> > Surely there is a better way of doing this?
I don't think so. After two failed SO attempts (damn S3V server) I've yet
to figure out a way. I've telnetted in and killed every process and
restarted every tty but it doesn't help. If you figure out a way let me
know otherwise it's 'shutdown -r now'.
-jay
> Cheers
> Tony
>
