Re: [newbie] Re: X lockup

1999-07-30 Thread Andy Goth
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X It's supposed to, but it took maybe an hour for it to respond. Usually it's instant, but it wasn't in this case. A second is more like it. You've got something stealing cycles in a big way! The problem is that a _lot_ of different things can cause

Re: [newbie] Re: X lockup

1999-07-30 Thread Ripcrd6
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X It's supposed to, but it took maybe an hour for it to respond. Usually it's instant, but it wasn't in this case. A second is more like it. You've got something stealing cycles in a big way! The problem is that a _lot_ of different things can cause these

Re: [newbie] Re: X lockup

1999-07-30 Thread Andy Goth
Does your system stay running long enough for the cron jobs to process? I haven't done anything with cron. I have yet to read about what it's for. You could have a ton of temp files and stuff waiting to be dumped. Should I just rm everything out of the /tmp directory?

Re: [newbie] Re: X lockup

1999-07-29 Thread Andy Goth
I still want to know how to shut either X or the process down instantly. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X It's supposed to, but it took maybe an hour for it to respond. Usually it's instant, but it wasn't in this case.

Re: [newbie] Re: X lockup

1999-07-29 Thread William Meyer
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X It's supposed to, but it took maybe an hour for it to respond. Usually it's instant, but it wasn't in this case. A second is more like it. You've got something stealing cycles in a big way!

[newbie] Re: X lockup

1999-07-28 Thread Andy Goth
On my PC, X appears to have locked up. It's running what I think is AfterStep. I started xfontsel and poked around a couple of fonts, but now it's just sitting. It doesn't seem to respond to anything: the mouse, Alt+F2, Ctrl+Alt+BkSp, Ctrl+Alt+Del, or anything else I know of. I do NOT

Re: [newbie] Re: X lockup

1999-07-28 Thread William Meyer
I still want to know how to shut either X or the process down instantly. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X