<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Try <control>+<alt>+F1 (or F2, F3, ... , F6)<br><br>That should take you to a TTY where you can sign-in and attempt to troubleshoot the issue.<br><span><br><span name="x"></span>David L. Willson<br>Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast<br>RHCE MCT MCSE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 NovellCLA UbuntuCP<br>tel://720.333.LANS<br>Freedom is better when you earn it. Learn Linux.<span name="x"></span><br></span><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">So, I've been getting some X hangs lately. I didn't think much of the first two, but I'm starting to think I need to pay attention. I suspect it's browser/flash issue, but I don't know how I'll ever prove that. <div>
<br></div><div>Anyway - I have a couple questions.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Is there a better way to recover from application hang then just zapping the X server? cntrl-alt-backspace?</div><div>I know that if I've got a working terminal window I can theorhetically kill the offending process, but what if I don't have a working terminal?</div>
<div>2. I wonder if there's a log somewhere I need to be reading when these happen so I can avoid setting off the same landmine twice? It's a system hang, (unresponsive to mouse and keyboard), I suspect X, I could go to /etc/X11, but I don't see a logs directory; besides, logically speaking X could be innocent. I see this kind of behavior in windows, you usually just respond with the 3 finger salute and kill the "not responding" process in task manager.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, guidance/suggestions are appreciated.</div><div>My distro is:</div><div><div>DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint</div><div>DISTRIB_RELEASE=11</div><div>DISTRIB_CODENAME=katya</div><div>DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 11 Katya"</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>thanks and regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Mike Bean</div></span>
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