[TriLUG] recovering from X crash

[Randall Barlow]

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> This is a home machine and I can recover by rebooting, but I'd like a 
> better way.
>
> I run all my big cronjobs on sat night (backup, disk health...) and 
> sometimes on sunday morning, my screen is blank/black and not 
> responsive to the keyboard/mouse. Coming in from another machine, I 
> find X isn't running and I see page allocation errors in the logs. 
> Presumaby the machine has run out of memory and X was killed.
>
> Is there a way to bring up the console login on the machine again?

You can also at least get back into your desktop via ALT-F1 and then 
login and execute startx (with the appropriate .xsession file :))

-- 
Randy Barlow
Research Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
randall_barlow at ncsu.edu
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