Re: [MLUG] hard X crash that kills keyboard

["Scott Hussey" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Does the xorg.log tell you anything interesting when you SSH in?

On 5/1/07, George Robb <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Hi MLUG-
>
> Has anyone had experience with FC4 (Ya, ya.. I know old school...)
> that crashes X so hard that the keyboard no longer responds to status
> LEDs (num lock, caps lock, etc...) or even ctrl-alt-del.  Ctrl-Shift-
> Alt-Backspace won't even kill X.  The monitor goes out of sync (no
> signal) and the keyboard becomes a paperweight.
>
> A work around was to edit the inittab to keep things in runlevel 3
> but, for this particular user a GUI is a must.  I nuked xorg.conf and
> had the system build a new one with X -configure.  even X -config
> xorg.conf.new crashes the system.  If I ssh in the system reveals
> that X is at 99.7% cpu and has no desire to chill out.  A kill -15
> bounces off and a kill -9 brings things back to normal of course with
> no X.
>
> Anyone else seen this before?
>
> Thanks,
>
> George
>
>
>
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