Re: [gentoo-user] Question about xorg and a kill process

["Håkon Alstadheim" <hakon@alstadheim.priv.no>]

Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:03, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hung Dang wrote:
>>     
>>> I often use Ctrl+F1 to F6 to back to the command line and if your X is
>>> fine you can back the X screen using Ctrl+F7. Or if you want to kill
>>> your X then Ctrl+Alt+Backspace may be helpful.
>>>
>>> Hung
>>>
>>>
>>> Dale wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I know the subject is a bit lacking but here goes.  I'm thinking about
>>>> trying this xorg-server upgrade again.  I been thinking about a way to
>>>> do this and not have to pull the plug on my rig if it fails, which I bet
>>>> it does.  This is the command I am thinking about trying.
>>>> /etc/init.d/xdm start && sleep 5m && /etc/init.d/xdm stop
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking this way.  Start X first.  If it fails, it will stop in 5
>>>> minutes and come back to a console.  Think this will work?  If xorg
>>>> works, I can switch back to a console and ctrl C the command and
>>>> carry on.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?  Better ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Dale
>>>>
>>>> :-)  :-)
>>>>
>>>>         
>> That won't work because if xorg-server fails, my keyboard doesn't work
>> when I switch to X.  If the keyboard doesn't work, I can't switch back
>> to anything or type anything.
>>
>> I done been through this one time.  I'm trying to figure out how to get
>> back to console with a keyboard that doesn't work at all.
>>
>>     
>
> Best way to do this is using a remote shell (SSH for example) in
> another machine. If that's not an option or X driver fails in
> conflicts with the kernel (mine did before I found a suitable config)
> then you're pretty much lost, cause your video is gone for good.
>
> You can try SYSREQ combinations to kill the server and if that fails
> even cleanly reboot the rig, but as I said before, depending on the
> problem your video is gone.
>
>   
stick a "chvt 1"  after the "xdm stop".