From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 3 13:07:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04483 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:07:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04384 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:07:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA20971; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:06:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:06:53 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dave Hummel cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keyboard and screen freeze from X In-Reply-To: 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 On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, 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? Does Ctrl-Alt-Backspace do anything? Alt-F1? If you can get into the machine, you can at least gracefully reboot the system. 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