David L wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Tim wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 10:39 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: >>> My Fedora 10 machine locks up X completely, but I can still login via >>> SSH. The monitor still shows the X window, but nothing changes, no >>> clock, mouse nothing. X processes are still running, but not sure how to >>> go about shutting them down. Last night, I tried to get the system to >>> shut down sanely by running shutdown -h now and although the command ran >>> and I couldn't login via ssh anymore, the machine did not shut down. >>> >>> Can anyone tell me how to shutdown and restart X properly. Tried things >>> like startx( had a x lock file exists error) and init 3, but nothing worked. >> If X hadn't completely locked up, CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE would have >> restarted X (that is BACKSPACE, the delete key that deletes to the left, >> not the DEL key that deletes to the right). >> >> If the keyboard was still being listened to, then CTRL+ALT+DEL should >> have rebooted (perhaps after hammering away at the keys a lot), as a >> second option instead of CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. > > <snip> > I've seen similar symptoms ... for me, the keyboard is usually > dead I think, so any recovery procedure would have to be done > remotely through an ssh session. I'm not sure if it's a valid way > to tell for sure, but I usually try the caps lock/num lock to see if > the little lights toggle to see if the keyboard is dead. Whenever > they don't toggle, control-alt-* hasn't worked for me. Even the > sys rq REISUB trick did nothing. I've never tried unplugging > the USB keyboard and plugging it back in... I wonder if that could > help recover the keyboard. > > Even if control-alt-backspace did work, my understanding was > that it was disabled by default in f11, but the poster was running > f10, so that's not his problem. > > Regards, > > David > Thank you for all your help; much appreciated. You're correct in thinking that the keyboard doesn't respond to ctrl-alt-backspace, I've tried that. I'll try the kill X next time, but last time I did that it seemed to corrupt my boot partition and I had to use a rescue disk. TBH, my system is getting increasingly unstable (1 hard lock up per day). I'm going to try and memtest, see how it gets on with a couple of hours unreal tournament in windows to check the hardware, and if that doesn't work I'll try upgrading to F11. If that doesn't work, new re-install time, but I've not really got the time for that. On my gentoo system, if things go awry, you can just tell it to rebuild everything, is there a similar option to reinstall all the core packages with fedora? Anyway, thanks for your time with this problem. Much appreciated, James -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
