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Re: [Plug] XFree locks up local console
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Have you tried shift-ctrl-alt-backspace or ctrl-alt-F2 ?
Also what desktop are you running? And what screensaver is it using?
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-Rune
Time is Irrelevant to the worlds beyond this godforsaken place unto which
it destroys all.
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"In the depths of a mind insane fantasy and reality are the same" -Slayer.
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Steven Pulito wrote:
:Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 16:53:10 -0500
:From: Steven Pulito <stevenp@seas.upenn.edu>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: [Plug] XFree locks up local console
:
:Here's the situation: I don't use XFree often as most of my work is done
:through a remote ssh session. However everyonce and a while I load the gui
:up to accomplish something. Even rarer I forget to logout once I'm
:finished. Now I have a KVM switch so I'm not really paying attention to the
:local console. But a day later when I switch back the screensaver has
:kicked in and sometimes it's just frozen. The keyboard lites don't respond
:or anything. However I can still login remotely and do whatever I want.
:Still the only solution I have come up with to regain local console access
:is to reboot the machine from a remote session.
:
:There HAS TO BE a better way. Anyone want to enlighten me? :)
:
:In case it helps I'm running a pretty standard RH 6.0 installation with
:roughly all the latest rpm updates.
:
:Any help will be greatly appreciated, as it stands now I have 20 days uptime
:and would have had at least 60 if it weren't for this matter. Not that the
:uptime really matters, but it irks me still.
:
:Thanks
:_______________________
:Steven J. Pulito
:http://steve.dyndns.org
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:writing it."
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