Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:30:38 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> | From | (Kragen) |
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On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Yes, it *is* very much a kernel issue. What happens if you kill -9 the X > server? The machine hangs because the kernel does not sanify the > console/VT, i.e. switch it back to the text mode of the VT whence the X > server was started.
This has been beat to death in the GGI/KGI/fb discussions. Please don't bring it up again.
(It would be nice if someone had already written a small wrapper for X that would sanify the console when X crashes, as Linus suggested. Has someone? My X crashes every few months.)
Kragen
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