From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 1 23:44:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27166 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:44:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stern.buffalostate.edu (hummel@stern.buffalostate.edu [136.183.7.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27158 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:44:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hummel@stern.buffalostate.edu) Received: from localhost (hummel@localhost) by stern.buffalostate.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA10502 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 02:44:36 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 02:44:36 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Hummel To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keyboard and screen freeze from X (fwd) 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 My apologies for not being clear.... I am still able to telnet into my box, and ps -ax definitely shows no signs of any X related processes. All keyboard activity has no effect, including Cntl-Alt-Anything. I had this happen a while ago under normal X usage. This time, it happened because I seriously tried to break X while testing a buffer overflow in XFree86. On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Studded wrote: > Dave Hummel wrote: > > > > X has left my keyboard and screen locked up. Everything else > > has been running smoothly in the background for several days. > > The screen is the initial screen with the giant X cursor in > > the middle, and no key strokes seem to be read. ps shows no > > X related process id that I can kill. > > > > How can I fix this without a reboot? > > Have you tried Ctl-Alt-F2 to get to a new tty? That should at least > give you a usable system till the next time you actually need to reboot. > And are you sure that there's no X-related stuff in 'ps -ax'? You > should at least see something like xinit, XF86_S3, etc. > > Good luck, > > Doug > > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest > *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message