Re: troubles with KDE(?)

From: Sonny Ha (sonny_at_home.net)
Date: 03/17/04

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    Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:13:36 -0500

    On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:31:16 -0500, amp wrote:

    > i am also running redhat 9.
    >
    > it may be that your system did not crash, but X crashed. i have had X
    > crash before where the keyboard, mouse and screen were locked. I know
    > that it was X (and not the whole system) because i have my computer on a
    > network and i was able to login from elsewhere and kill X.
    >
    Well, I can't tell 'cos I have only one comp. And could you bring back X?
    If yes, what did you have to do?

    > crashes can be brought about by many things, it is hard to tell. A user
    > app should not crash the whole system (i suspect your X crashed).
    >
    That's what I've been thinking about Linux... Even if only X crashed,
    what's the point of using a Desktop without the GUI? Moreover, the crash
    brought down my whole system since I was waiting for like 3 mins and my
    system still didn't have any response, so I have to reset.

    > one thing that i can recommend is updating to a new kernel. I found
    > that has helped me with crash situations before. On redhat 8 i had a
    > system that crashed all the time and i updated the kernel and that fixed
    > everything (well, all the crashing :))

    That's one of my projects, I'll do that soon. Thanks for your reply.

    Sonny

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