Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:31:04 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Shigetoh Kumagai <shigetoh@zip.com.au>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Console frozen when X-server exited Message-ID: <19981228133104.K12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95LJ1.1b3.981228132410.6370A-100000@summer.kumagai.nf>; from Shigetoh Kumagai on Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 01:48:29PM %2B1100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95LJ1.1b3.981228132410.6370A-100000@summer.kumagai.nf>
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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
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