[Novalug] computer hangs up

Nino Pereira pereira@speakeasy.net
Wed Feb 27 21:42:13 EST 2008



maxpublic08@maxwellspangler.com wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> 
>> Every now and then my Linux Ubuntu desktop hangs up. Mouse does not 
>> move, trying a keyboard access such as cntrl+alt+F1 does not flip me 
>> to a console screen.
> 
> Best thing you can do if this is occuring is:

  (snip)

> 3a) Try  #  init 3    to force the system to shutdown X and related 
> programs and to go command line only mode.  After it says it's shutdown 
> X, run top again to see if any X programs are running, such as no 
> X-windows but mozilla or another X application is still running.  If so, 
> kill -9 the application and do #   init 5  to restart X and see if your 
> display comes back up.

Since this seems to be such a nice trick I tried out what I thought you
meant. After ssh'ing into the box, I did:

'sudo init 3',

expecting something to happen. But, nothing.

What did I misunderstand?

Nino



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