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Re: [Plug] XFree locks up local console
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Ok, the silly question: Have you tried to kill the wm's PID?
I had a similar problem and the only solution I found was to turn off
the screen saver.
Steven Pulito wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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