[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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