Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:34:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Kevin Hoos <kevinh@ctpberk.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xfree86 Hung Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980322233324.12642Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <FD1EED1659@ctpberk.org>
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On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Kevin Hoos wrote: > I'm in a real bind!! I'm a major hub for a IRC network. someone > has run Xwindows on my system and it hung. there is absolutely no > reference to X in ps -ax but I see the wallpaper from x on screen. > I can't afford to take this system down, not even for a couple > minutes. Please Help Soon!!! The console probably hung. Did you try Ctrl-Alt-F1? At worst you've lost your console. If you can't shutdown the system, what do you do for power outages? backups? Hard disk failures? If IRC is that critical you really should have a hot backup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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