Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 02:44:36 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Hummel <hummel@stern.buffalostate.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keyboard and screen freeze from X (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980302024245.10496A-100000@stern.buffalostate.edu>
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My apologies for not being clear.... I am still able to telnet into my box, and ps -ax definitely shows no signs of any X related processes. All keyboard activity has no effect, including Cntl-Alt-Anything. I had this happen a while ago under normal X usage. This time, it happened because I seriously tried to break X while testing a buffer overflow in XFree86. On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Studded wrote: > 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
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