James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > 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. > Does capslock still change the LED status? If not, bad sign. You can use the "ps auxww" command to see the PID of the X process and then kill PID or, more strongly, kill -9 PID. (equivalenty, killall X and killall -9 X). Killing X will kill all the graphical applications and start X again if you are in runlevel 5. But, as you said that init 3 failed to shut down X, I'm afraid the hardware is left in a state where recovery is not possible. (FYI, "startx -- :1" would have tried to start a second X instance, bypassing the existing lock) Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
