From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IFcii-00066M-4M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:24:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6ULMisU009037; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:22:44 GMT Received: from desiato.localdomain (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6ULGHIP001010 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:16:17 GMT Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by desiato.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9990F192C16 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:16:17 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:16:12 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs Message-ID: <20070730221612.0a34f4eb@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <200707290902.17786.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200707292108.57522.bss03@volumehost.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0cvs77 (GTK+ 2.10.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_cpzO/MnPVIUZ3uiPLPI3Snb"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 2fb147c2-998a-446b-80bd-63002cec2a88 X-Archives-Hash: 62267705fe6396e48245954a511de2e9 --Sig_cpzO/MnPVIUZ3uiPLPI3Snb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:22:07 +0000 (UTC), james wrote: > For now the system is booting to a console prompt. I'm looking > for a guide that tells you how to test xorg.conf configs > and recover without having to reboot (powercycle) the system. >=20 > I've never seen starting up X/kde cause a system to hang before... Is the whole system handing, or just X? Do you have a networked computer you can SSH in from, that would enable you to kill X. If all else fails, and provided you have enabled CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ in your kernel, hold down Alt and SysReq/PrtScr and press S, U and B in turn to reboot (reasonably) cleanly. Pausing a couple of seconds between each key is probably a good idea. --=20 Neil Bothwick And God said "Let there be light" and there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it better. --Sig_cpzO/MnPVIUZ3uiPLPI3Snb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGrlUgum4al0N1GQMRAngFAJ4/e04joHqkKLQDooGUNY3UMg5K8QCeNf3g GylREZqlPhKGA45J/vh8bNU= =NkDc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_cpzO/MnPVIUZ3uiPLPI3Snb-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list