Re: HELP: Killing X

["Charles E. Taylor IV" <charlet hubcap clemson edu>]

On 13-Oct-99 Blake Carlson wrote:
> I tried doing killall X and killall xinit.  Those processes are gone and
> it's still not responding??!!!??  None of the remaining processes look
> like the culprit.  Am I destined to reboot?!! (I'm really sad .....)

As long as they're really dead (killall without the -9 option sometimes won't
really kill X if it's hung), you might try restarting X from the remote
terminal.  Sometimes this wakes the video up again.

At least, it worked the one time I tried it. ;)

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