From: Shane Dempsey (sdempsey at domain tssg.wit.ie)
Date: Fri 18 Feb 2000 - 16:11:30 GMT
Hi aaron,
I know what you are saying but for some strange reason
2 of the crashes managed to lock up the keyboard.
I also interpret a crash as being something that causes all the
GUI apps that I am running to be unceremoniously
dumped while the os takes me back to a prompt.
That irritates me greatly but I take your point.
It doesn' t really reflect kernel stability. You could still
happily run all kinds of networking apps on a machine
where X crashes a lot without causing any problems
for network users who are depending on it.
...shane
----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron McDaid <Aaron.McDaid at domain compaq.com>
To: Ilug (E-mail) <ilug at domain linux.ie>
Sent: 18 February 2000 15:24
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Have you had your daily dose of reality?
> > My linux machine has been rebooted about 5 times
> > due to problems with X and various apps
>
> I assume you're referring to a situation where you couldn't log out or
stop
> X in a normal way
>
> why? you shouldn't have to reboot because of that! if your window manager
is
> hanging or whatever try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. That'll kill X for you.
> It's also possible to restore some sanity by going back to the console
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 and messing about there (it's the same as Alt-F1 or Alt-F2 to
> swap virtual consoles if you aren't in X) . Such as SIGKILL the wm and
> restart it (this keeps your X-apps your running). But that's getting a bit
> complicated.
>
> If neither of these is working only then should you hit Ctrl-Alt-Del or
god
> forbid hit the reset button.
>
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