From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 27 19:01:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12019 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 19:01:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12014 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 19:01:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA26494; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:31:01 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA30114; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:31:04 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981228133104.K12346@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:31:04 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Shigetoh Kumagai , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Console frozen when X-server exited References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Shigetoh Kumagai on Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 01:48:29PM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 28 December 1998 at 13:48:29 +1100, Shigetoh Kumagai wrote: > 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 You're probably out of luck here. The X server is responsible for resetting the console, and if it is killed, it doesn't happen. > 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? You can restart the server from the telnet session. There's a good (but not excellent) chance that it will work. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message