From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 27 18:49:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11197 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:49:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from summer.kumagai.nf (cartman66.zip.com.au [61.8.20.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11191 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:48:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shigetoh@zip.com.au) Received: from localhost (shigetoh@localhost) by summer.kumagai.nf (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA06399 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:48:29 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from shigetoh@zip.com.au) X-Authentication-Warning: summer.kumagai.nf: shigetoh owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:48:29 +1100 (EST) From: Shigetoh Kumagai X-Sender: shigetoh@summer.kumagai.nf Reply-To: Shigetoh Kumagai To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Console frozen when X-server exited Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm running FreeBSD Release 2.2.8 with XFree86 3.3.2. This afternoon, X-server exited when system run out of swap space. Then the console got frozen. There is no response by pressing any key on keyboard. I tried ALT+CTL+1, ALT+[1234], ALT+CTL+DEL combinations, too, with no success. However I can telnet to the machine. So I checked the /var/log/messages, and here is the log. Dec 28 12:37:46 summer /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Dec 28 12:37:49 summer /kernel: pid 263 (XF86_SVGA), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space I cannot start X-Server on the console since there is no response from the keyboard. Does anyone know how to bring back console and keyboard alive without rebooting the machine? ------> Sail OZ Shigetoh Kumagai To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message