From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 1 23:30:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25221 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:30:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050ndd.san.rr.com (root@dt050ndd.san.rr.com [204.210.31.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA25214 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:30:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (dougdougdougdoug@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050ndd.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06041; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:30:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <34FA6002.849F6497@san.rr.com> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 23:30:10 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE-0228 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Hummel CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keyboard and screen freeze from X References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Hummel wrote: > > X has left my keyboard and screen locked up. Everything else > has been running smoothly in the background for several days. > The screen is the initial screen with the giant X cursor in > the middle, and no key strokes seem to be read. ps shows no > X related process id that I can kill. > > How can I fix this without a reboot? Have you tried Ctl-Alt-F2 to get to a new tty? That should at least give you a usable system till the next time you actually need to reboot. And are you sure that there's no X-related stuff in 'ps -ax'? You should at least see something like xinit, XF86_S3, etc. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message