Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:02:17 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> |
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > [SNIPPED ... all other quotes] > I started X. As root I killed X. Keyboard, etc., all locked. > I logged in over the network and restarted X. Everything worked, > including ctl-alt-backspace which got me out of X with a usable > keyboard. `stty sane` and `stty rows 24` fixed up about averything. > > Aparently X doesn't put everything back the way it found it when > it exits. Instead, it puts everything back the way is should be.
It puts everything back the way it was when X started. That may or may not be the way things "should be".
> --- more or less. Rows was at 1... > > This means you can recover from an X fatality if you have access > from the network.
If you are lucky. And even you didn't get 100% successful restoration. Try anything tricky with fbcon and see how far you get then.
Jon
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