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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
> 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".
>
>
>

Did a man chvt and that is interesting.  I got to add that to the
command just in case.  ;-)

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-)