Re: Hanging/crashing (was: annoyances digest, Vol 1 #58 - 1 msg)

Thus quoth Andy Oram on Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:53:59AM -0400:
> Occasionally, I must admit, I've had the monitor and keyboard on either
> KDE or GNOME freeze on me. This has happened on a laptop running older
> versions of Red Hat and on my workstation running Gentoo. At this point
> a three-finger salute doesn't work; all I can do is power down (thank
> goodness for journaling filesystems).

This happens. You may consult the chapter 'The X Windows disaster' of the
Unix Haters Handbook. 

In many cases the solution is to log in remotely from another system on the net
and kill the X server.

Kind regards,


Daniel von Asmuth

-- 
	wat heb je nodig bij een uitzichtloos leven? euthanasie?
	nee, windows.
	van microsoft?
	nee, van glas.