Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

[deface <deface@uberpenguin.net>]

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' /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:

> Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
>> O/H Kevin O'Gorman έγραψε:
>>
>>> From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always
>>> while I'm editing something in ooffice.  It's always something  
>>> that's
>>> pretty heavily graphical.  When this happens, the only thing that
>>> still works on my desktop is mouse motion.  No clicks actually
>>> register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are  
>>> feckless.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> maybe you can ssh to your machine and then:
>> ps -A | grep X
>> and see the pid of X...
>> and then kill [pid of X]...
>>
>>
>
> 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
>
> :-)  :-)  :-)
>
>
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