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[PLUG] TightVNC give me some insight into a freeze...
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I've been having an occasional problem with my main Linux workstation. It
appears to freeze and I have to reboot to get it operational again. This
happens rarely (once or twice a week) but is _real_ annoying. Today, I
noticed that when it "froze" the mouse still worked. Now, since the
keyboard is dead, I cannot "ctrl-alt-del", "ctrl-alt-backspace" or even
"ctrl-alt-FX" to a VC and kill off X. This time, I remembered I had a VNC
server running so I connected to it from my laptop. Violia! it worked!
I was able to kill X (sudo kill -9 pid) and log back in to the system.
I'm now contemplating 2 things:
1. why it freezes. I always seem to be running Firefox so perhaps it's
contributing? It's a new video card (BFG Tech with Nvidia chip) so perhaps
that's it. This is a pain.
2. What can I examine from the VNC session and see why a process is "hung"?
I have examined the /var/log/messages file and have not detected any
"smoking gun" entry.
Also, my VNC startup used twm which is hardly usable for a guy used to KDE.
This is funny since I cut my teeth on twm back in '94 or even earlier :-)
It was _real_ cool then :-)
I tried to get KDE running for my VNC in the past but found it conflicted
with the KDE running on the VC #7. This time, I changed the last line of
the startup file from: "twm &" to: "blackbox &". Wow. Blackbox is nice.
Lightweight and quick. I don't believe I'll use KDE on the VNC afterall.
Eric
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# Eric Lucas
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Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying
himself a pleasure.
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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