Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:16:37 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: "J. Seth Henry" <jshenry@net-noise.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions-digest V5 #85 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102062114110.4182-100000@shazam.int> In-Reply-To: <006901c0905a$5fc66db0$0e01a8c0@guinevere>
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, J. Seth Henry wrote: > Given the description of the problem, I would say that the problem is in X. > Every great once in a while, my X session will lock - producing similar > symptoms: no keyboard/mouse. The system is far from dead though. I have a > dumb terminal attached to one of the serial ports, and I can log in as root > and kill the offending processes. Then, I kill -HUP init, and this *usually* > restores the console. Keep in mind, it's only happened about 3 or 4 times - > and it worked twice... ;) If that doesn't work, I can gracefully shutdown > the system. Definitely recommended! > > > Since you said you could ping the machine, which implies you have more than > one on your network. You should be able to telnet/ssh in and do the same. > Nope, I mentioned that you can't telnet or ftp in. I haven't tried a serial terminal. I could do that. Thanks, Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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