Re: Random hangs

Nikos Ntarmos <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:54:29 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hpcsh
Organization NetCInS Lab., C.E.I.D., U. of Patras, Greece
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi there.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:35:39PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> > Yeah, I have never successfully returned to the shell after exitting
> > X. I think you can ssh into the 620 and kill the Xserver though. Or
> > just reboot from an xterm. Maybe it needs a swap area. It is
> > possible to use nfs swap.
[...]
> Thanks again! :) I still get a kick out of seeing X start up on my HPC... 

I have also run into this problem with my 690. I've found that starting
X using something like 'exec xinit' circumvents the return-to-shell
issue, but this is just a workaround anyway...

Have a happy new year btw...

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