Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:06:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dave Hummel <hummel@stern.buffalostate.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keyboard and screen freeze from X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303130606.20872L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980302010316.9838A-100000@stern.buffalostate.edu>
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, 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? Does Ctrl-Alt-Backspace do anything? Alt-F1? If you can get into the machine, you can at least gracefully reboot the system. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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