[ale] killing X

[Geoff Harrison]

Chris Hamilton wrote:

> > After 52 days of up time I finally had to telnet in and reboot my linux box.
> > Somehow I hung the console running an assortment of applications.  How does one
> > regain control of the console once it locks up in X when "ctrl + alt +
> > backspace" won't do it and "ps -x" showes no X server or applications running.
>
> Have you tried: CTRL+ALT+F1 (or some other function key). Typically, this
> will get you to a text-based tty while you're in X, then ALT+F7 to get
> back into X.
>
> --
> Christopher Hamilton            Internal System Administrator
> chrish at ifsintl.com              IFS International, Inc.

 If X is so looped that it won't go into its main event loop to process ctrl-alt-backspace
then it won't process ctrl-alt-f1 (all key presses are trapped events in X)


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Geoff Harrison (http://mandrake.net)
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