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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Maniaman on 28 November 2002, 00:18

Title: Linux Problem
Post by: Maniaman 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   :(
Title: Linux Problem
Post by: Bazoukas 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 ?
Title: Linux Problem
Post by: Maniaman 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.
Title: Linux Problem
Post by: Stryker on 28 November 2002, 00:36
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE should restart X, and fix your problem.
Title: Linux Problem
Post by: Maniaman on 28 November 2002, 00:40
It fixed it  (http://smile.gif)  Thanks.
Title: Linux Problem
Post by: Stryker on 28 November 2002, 00:46
quote:
Originally posted by Maniaman:
It fixed it   (http://smile.gif)   Thanks.


Try restarting the GUI on windows without restarting... (and ms-dos mode doesn't count)
Title: Linux Problem
Post by: Master of Reality on 28 November 2002, 01:36
quote:
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?
Title: Linux Problem
Post by: Stryker on 28 November 2002, 02:32
quote:
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.
Title: Linux Problem
Post by: Master of Reality 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.