Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 03:54:54PM -0500, Dave Walker wrote:
On 3/31/07, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Dave Walker" <carol.dave.walker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Thanks, Andrei........ what you explained was exactly what I found. X
was not running in terminal 1 at all as I expected, but was "hiding"
(from me at least) in terminal 7.

That raises the question, though, about what happined to terminal 1.
Why won't it respond, and why does it appear to be comatose???


On VC1 you ran startx. X spits its stderr to VC1 and continues to do so
as long as it is running. It paints a display on the next available VC
(standard debian has this as VC7). The Ctrl-Alt-Backspace works when
you are viewing the X system in VC7. In VC1, X is spitting its output
but isn't reading input on that VC.

I _have_ had a case where X wouldn't respond to _any_ magic keystrokes.
This is another reason why I have a getty running on a serial port. I
can always log in from another computer via a null-modem cable.

Doug.


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