Re: [LAU] Hard lock-ups -- Trying to narrow the cause

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Nick Copeland
<nickycopeland@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>> The mouse pointer still moving, though, has been common enough hang that
>> it stands out in my memory.
>
> If the mouse still moves then you may be able to try giving a
> Control/Alt/Backspace to see if you can restart the X Server and login
> again, that does depend on how dead the system is but mouse motion means
> that you may also have keyboard control to some extent.
>
> Regards, Nick.
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Come to think of it, if the mouse is moving but everything is frozen,
hit Control-Alt-F1, log in to a command line, run (h)top to see what
process is hogging the CPU and kill it, hitting Control-Alt-F7 to get
back to your X session. This will work on almost any distro if your
only issue is a misbehaving X11 app.
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Received on Fri May 22 20:15:01 2009