Re: hanging system

[jesse cmu edu (Jesse F. Hughes)]

Jerry F. Davis <jfdecd@execpc.com> writes:

> Sometimes I get a real hard hang. One that I can't figure out a way out
> of.
> 
> Sometimes the CTRL ALT Fx does not work at all. Heretofore when this bad
> of a hang job has happened, I have had to do a HARDWARE SHUTDOWN which
> of course I don't want to do. I would rather get into a console and do a
> reboot. Is there anything other than a HARD shutoff that I can do at
> that point?
> 
> Is this the fault of Gnome, Enlightenment or X?
> 
> Does anyone else have this problem?
> 

Geez, I thought it was only me.  I have the same problem.  It seems to 
be worse since I upgraded Gnome recently.

> Also, I have logged out and the login screen won't come up. What I do
> then is to get into a virtual console (when i can), login as root. do an
> init 3 and
> then an init 5 and then the login screen comes up. Any other way of
> doing this?
> 
> Does anyone else have this problem too?

No idea about that one.

-- 
Jesse Hughes

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