Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 23:13:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crashed X-server Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970728230556.8929A-100000@austral> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970728194825.7252C-100000@localhost>
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> > Also, you can use Cntl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server, or hit > Cntl-Alt-F1 to get your console back. Then kill xdm or X and you should > be OK. > Thanks for the advice, and re-assurance that the /stand directory looks OK. My X-server crashes much harder than this - it becomes entirely non-responsive to all key combinations that I have ever tried, including the ones you suggest. I believe the OS is still running in the background, but is entirely inaccessible. Does this seem plausible? I reported a similar problem with Xperfmon++ a while ago; it caused similar crashes. Jordan thought I had run out of swap space, and that FreeBSD was still running. I have now put a cron task to write the current date and time into a file every minute. If I get another crash, I will wait a few minutes, reboot, and see if the OS was in fact still running.
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