Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Aug 1998 07:26:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> |
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Jon Hamilton wrote:
> > In message <Pine.HPP.3.91.980811182240.22974A-100000@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>, "Jon M > . Taylor" wrote: > } On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Kragen wrote: > } > } > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > } > > Kragen writes: > } > > > 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 > } > > > > } > > > (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.) > } > > > } > > That was beat to death too: you can't do it. If you'd like to try, > } > > I have a "nice" Cirrus Logic clgd5430 card you can try to restore. > } > > . . . I can even > } > > hit the reset button and boot into an OS with official drivers, > } > > but it doesn't do any good. Only the big red switch works. > } > > } > Does that mean X can't restore it either, if it exits properly? > } > } 'Properly' is the keyword here. It cannot exit properly if it is > } killed by a signal. > > Why on earth not? The X server can catch any signal other than 9.
Certainly it can catch signal 9. It just cannot properly clean up the hardware state in the signal handler.
Jon
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