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Maniaman

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« on: 28 November 2002, 00:18 »
After over 2 weeks of uptime I may have to reboot Linux.   :(  

I was letting a friend use the machine under a normal user account. After my friend left it stopped responding. The mouse moves, screensaver worksn and the clock works, but no response to cliocks anywhere. Any way I can get around this without rebooting?(Its been like this for about a day now   :(
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« Reply #1 on: 28 November 2002, 00:25 »
What did he do exactly? Did you log out and log in again?

 Did you log out and went to only text mode and then log in again and start x ?
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« Reply #2 on: 28 November 2002, 00:35 »
Closed all the programs he was running (Gaim and Galeon) then left. I went to log him out and realized it wasn't working.
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« Reply #3 on: 28 November 2002, 00:36 »
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE should restart X, and fix your problem.

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« Reply #4 on: 28 November 2002, 00:40 »
It fixed it    Thanks.
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« Reply #5 on: 28 November 2002, 00:46 »
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Originally posted by Maniaman:
It fixed it     Thanks.


Try restarting the GUI on windows without restarting... (and ms-dos mode doesn't count)

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« Reply #6 on: 28 November 2002, 01:36 »
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Originally posted by Stryker:


Try restarting the GUI on windows without restarting... (and ms-dos mode doesn't count)


what the hell are you talking about? Windows?
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« Reply #7 on: 28 November 2002, 02:32 »
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Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0B:

what the hell are you talking about? Windows?



I wouldn't wonder too much... i say and think stupid things at times. (I don't think I understand your question) I was just making a point that if windows were to freze you'd have to restart it, you couldn't just press ctrl+alt+backspace to restart the graphical environment. and yes, i was talking about windows.

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« Reply #8 on: 28 November 2002, 02:47 »
ahh... i see now.
actually.. there is a way to restart explorer but its rather complicated and is a bug.
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