Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

[Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>]

070604 Philip Webb wrote:
> 070603 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> From time to time my X server will lock up,
>> usually while I'm editing something 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.
> Your experience & a couple of earlier reports on the list
> suggest there is an obscure bug somewhere in X .
> I have just tested 'Alt-PrintScreen-K' -- press all simultaneously --

Well today, I've had  2  lock-ups !  Both involved Epiphany
-- which I find a bit faster & more convenient than FF/Konqueror -- ,
the 1st merely locking the browser, which I was able to kill
after going to another desktop with a Konsole & running Htop,
the 2nd just now involving a total lock-up as described above
& yes the 'Alt-PrintScreen-K' manoeuvre does act as a get-out-of-jail card:
you have to re-enter the TTY with 'Ctl-Alt-F1',
where there are a lot of msgs announcing that X has been killed
& you can restart it with 'startx' (my normal method).

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