Restarting Xserver from cli

[Knapp]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:
> Joep L. Blom wrote:
>> Ray Parrish wrote:
>>
>>> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>>>
>>>> David Curtis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> To me, removing C-A-B to limit this issue, is a sound decision.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Not for people like me who have used Linux for many moons now, and when
>>>> X locks up that is one of the first methods to regain some form of
>>>> control...what's the alternative if you don't have another system to try
>>>> SSH'ing into it and checking processes?
>>>>
>>> Uh, CTRL-ALT-F1??? or F2, F3, etc... 8-) Although, since I'm still a
>>> noob, when I do an F1 to the console, I usually wind up doing a sudo
>>> reboot from there to continue, as I'm not really sure yet what to do
>>> once I get there. I'm sure with a little more reading on my part, that
>>> it's possible to query, and kill processes from the other tty to get it
>>> running properly again, and then log back into it.
>>>
>>> Later, Ray Parrish--
>>>
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>>> http://www.rayslinks.com
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Ray,
>> After CTRL+ALT+Fn(n=1-6) do CTRL-ALT-F7 and you're back in your X-session.
>> Joep
>>
> Thanks! Can I actually query and kill hung processes from 7 while logged
> into 1?
>
> Later, Ray Parrish

Is this question in two threads or am I going crazy?
You can kill it. If you can't then kill it with sudo kill.
use htop to find what needs killing and to do the killing. Then jump
back to f7. See my other post for more details.


-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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