Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 6/3/07, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > deface wrote: > > > ' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' > > > This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. > > > (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) > > > > > > I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather > > > than actually trying to band-aid it. > > > > > > deface > > > > > > On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrote: > > >> Or, you can do a /etc/init.d/xdm restart . Either should work. > > >> > > >> On another note, you may want to find out why it is locking up. This > > >> should not be happening. Are you sure it is locked up or could it be > > >> that what you are doing is just using all the CPU processes and it is > > >> to busy to respond? > > >> > > >> Maybe some serious guru will come in with a plan. > > >> > > >> Dale > > >> > > >> :-) :-) :-) > > >> > > >> -- > > >> www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 > > >> > > >> Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. > > > > If he does that, it will restart X. I have also seen where a few others > > made the suggestion too. This has always worked for me at least. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) :-) > > > > -- > > www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 > > > > Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. > > > > -- > > Thanks for all the ideas. I'll keep them handy for the next time (it > usually happens > about once or twice a month). > > In the meanwhile, a couple of notes: > 1) Yes, it's REALLY locked up. But there's always enough CPU left > for a non-X login from another machine. It has to be another machine > because I can't even switch to a console terminal. > 2) I have no clue how to find out what's causing the lockup. I'd > love to, because I usually lose a bunch of work in the crash. > 3) I don't see anything labeled "SysReq" on my keyboard, but it's > associated with the PrintScreen key on my wife's box. Can I hope > alt-printscreen-K will work? (I personally wonder about it since > _nothing_ else on the keyboard works, but maybe the kernel can see > it). > > Again, thanks. I'll say more when it happens again. > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD 1) alt-printscreen-k should work 2) try 'killall X' via ssh and if that doesnt restart and bring the display back also do "killall kdm" 3) can you share a copy of you xorg.conf? -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free & Open Source Advocate & nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc pgpOC1UTHUTKQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
On Sunday 03 June 2007 17:16, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always > > 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. > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD If you are using KDM you can always do a "killall X" as root and KDM should bring it back up for you. -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free & Open Source Advocate & nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc pgpIVr46BrfnA.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Bashcfg library - Looking for breave testers
Anybody willing to try out my bash config library? I also made this little utility to help out with my Gentoo server updates. Download: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/2007/06/02/bashcfg-release-001/ http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/linux/general/bashcfg/bashcfg-0.01.tar.bz2 -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free & Open Source Advocate pgpm8TUk2eGLi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] X11 from another machine
On Monday 21 May 2007 09:30, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm in the process of setting up a linux box as my desktop machine. > I've got X up and running, am about to do the kde install, but have a > question regarding "remote" X windows. > > SNIP > > Any thoughts on this greatly appreciated, > > Andrew Lowe Well if you are planning on using KDM as your login prompt and want to get the remote login prompt not just run a remote application. 1. Open up your kdmrc file located in '/usr/kde//share/config/kdm/'. If you have only one kde installation you can emacs, nano or vi /usr/kde/*/share/config/kdm/kdmrc 2. Look for this section: [Xdmcp] ( it's somewhere in the end of the config file ) 3. Set 'Enable' to 'True': Enable=true That's it, you should be able to see the box in any remote login screen on the network. -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free & Open Source Advocate & nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc pgpDRAIl13l4B.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting X
On Saturday 12 May 2007 05:31, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: > Hi everybody > > Deciding that I could not work with that I tried the open source drivers > for the ati card. > > Joe If your not looking for 3D Accel how about trying the VESA driver, or try some live distro that load up your video correctly and check out the xorg.conf to get an idea on how to set your up. -William -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free & Open Source Advocate & nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc pgpWYRoqoFRL3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk
On Friday 27 April 2007 04:23, Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: > > :) I love you! Thank you lol, I love you to LOL :P -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free & Open Source Advocate & nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc pgp0Y1JrEU7sD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel hangs after detecting the hard disk
On Thursday 26 April 2007 17:05, Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: > Looks like I've come with a different situation now: > > I installed Ubuntu in a different partition, it works fine. > I took it's kernel's config and tried to recompile gentoo's with it. > > Things are a little better now, but looks like it cannot find /dev/hda2 > (my root partition) nor /dev/sda2. Since no root can be found, it cannot > boot, and remains asking for the root password. If I log in, I cannot > access my files in any way. I don't know why. > > On the other hand, I also tried to boot Gentoo using Ubuntu's kernel by > setting root=/dev/sda2 (Gentoo's root partition) instead of > root=/dev/sda3 (Ubuntu's). It goes perfectly (it even mounts the root > partition), but stops after trying to remount proc (it cannot be mounted > because it has already been mounted) since it's considered a critical task. > > Any ideas? > > Shall I send the new kernel config as well? > > btw, is there any web site with a huge database with config files or > parts of them for different hardware, distributions (if applicable), and > kernels? (I already did my homework trying to find it) If not, I think > that would be a great idea. > > Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: > > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:07:38 +0200 > >> > >> Iván Pérez Domínguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>I'm having another problem, this time it's a kernel related problem. > >>> I'm currently using kernel 2.6.13, and most things work fine. However, > >>> when I try to update to a newer kernel (say 2.6.17 or 2.6.20), my > >>> laptop hangs after detecting the hard disk. If I don't use initrd, it > >>> stops when udev is loaded. > >> > >> What's the last (few lines of) message on screen? > >> > >> Did you configure your kernel to use the new libata stuff instead of > >> traditional IDE drivers? > > > > I don't know. That might be the problem. > > > > The old kernel config (2.6.13) is attached. I tried to change it but > > couldn't find any good combination. > > > >> -hwh > > > > Cheers, > > Ivan. Can you provide the LSPCI output and the .config for your kernel? -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free & Open Source Advocate & nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc pgpYzKBFRjfgL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New kernel 2.6.20-r6
On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Mick wrote: > > hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, > > CHS=16383/255/63<6>hda: hw_config=600d, UDMA(100) > > > > What's the hw_config part? > > It just means that the "hardware configuration is good". > > Sorry, couldn't resist. :) > > Benno > > -- > Cetere mi opinias ke ne ĉio tradukenda estas. LOL nice, 600d -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free & Open Source Advocate & nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious
On Saturday 14 April 2007 00:37, Dan Farrell wrote: > > I'm 23, and only have been running gentoo since 2002. I didn't > have a computer back when the internet was cool and stuff. It's funny, > on the forums I feel like more of a gentoo veteran but on the mailing > list I feel like a newbie. Im beginning to see why. I'm 25, started with an Apple II then a C64, x86 around 94 started my GNU/Linux trek with slackware I got off a half dead BBS user group... went on to try Red Hat and Debian, tried every distro I could afford to download via Modem, once I got ISDN, Cable and then DSL I went on to find Gentoo some time in 2003 or 2004, Loved it and it has been close to me ever since, I still test other distros but nothing comes close to Gentoo. -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free & Open Source Advocate & nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc pgpBkXtsqlBGL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.19-r5 kernel disaster
On Thursday 12 April 2007 03:02, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > > When I chroot from the livecd(2005.1) everything seems > to work; the modules all load, the software works etc. > > So, I'm at a complete loss. > > FWIW, when I do boot the maintenance console and run > udevstart the system crashes forcing a reset. > > -mw I had a similar problem once, It might not be your case but this one time I forgot to mount '/boot' before installing the new kernel via 'make install', so the system presented similar errors, since the modules and old kernel couldn't work together. It might be that... ( don't laugh ) -- Guillermo A. Amaral, CSE # Free & Open Source Advocate & nick: guillermoamaral @ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ @ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/ $ irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % gpg: http://downloads.guillermoamaral.com/public.asc pgpsXhLONuTSV.pgp Description: PGP signature
