Bridge

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 10:57 +0300, Bogdan Agica wrote:
> On Lu, 2006-05-01 at 13:54 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Bas van Gils wrote:
> > > I've managed to 
> > > get BBO to start up but it quickly freezes the entire machine. 
> > 
> > That, of course, could be a problem :-(
> 
> I've managed to play bridge on BBO v4.5 on Ubuntu. Everything was
> working ok, except for some ActiveX component of BBO.
> 
> Right now, the 4.7 version freezes for me too.

It's probably just freezing X, not the entire system. The following
advice is good for any program that appears to have "frozen everything":

First, wait at least five minutes. Some programs just take a long time
to figure some things out, and block everything while they do. The
"frozen" state may just come good of its own accord. Whether you ever
want to use such a program again is another question :-)

If the system really does seem stuck, try pressing F1 while holding down
the ALT and SHIFT keys together; if don't get a console screen, you can
try logging in from another machine to recover, or reboot the hard way
(power off).

If you DO get a console screen, though, only X has been frozen, and you
can probably recover as follows:

Log in on the console screen, use "ps ax" to locate the offending
process, and "kill -TERM xxxx" where "xxxx" is the process ID from the
far left column of the ps output. If the process is still there ten
seconds later, try "kill -KILL xxxx".

To return to X, hold down the ALT key and press F7. If things are
working again, you're back!

Regards, K.

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