Re: [opensuse] KDE OR X HANGS

On Sunday 29 April 2007 09:56, Siegfried Wolkenstein wrote:
sometimes kde or x just hangs.... I can not even kill any kde programme
after it happens. I am able to kill X by doing a "ctrl-alt-backspace", but
after that, X doesn't restart - even if I change the runlevel from 5 to 3
and then to 5 again. After reinitialising runlevel 5, X simply won't
start...
This is very unusual. toggling between runlevel 3 & 5 normally fixes things
that go crash in the X night.

If I try to restart the machine it hangs while trying to kill any programme
started in the X-Shells...
You will need to find the process number that has everything tied up...
killing them thoughtfully one by one (from the bottom) is one way to handle
this... a little experience will tell you which to try first... but obviously
anything having to do with X, kde, or anything that may touch the video in
any obscure way (gaming, etc). If the normal kill doesn't get it then a hard
kill will be required (use with caution):
kill -9 <proc number> as root.

Have you mixed and matched SUSE kde with stock kde?





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