[TriLUG] recovering from X crash

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Rick DeNatale wrote:

> On 2/26/06, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> Not sure what you mean by the remote machine here, are you 
> thinking of the remote machine as the one you are sshing 
> into, or the one you are sshing from?

Yes I see that's ambiguous. sorry. the remote machine is the 
one that I'm coming in from. the local machine is the one 
with X down.

> If you're sshing into the machine that you want to bring X 
> back up on, then init 5 (telinit 5) is going to bring that 
> machine to runlevel 5, which seems to be your goal here.

yes.

the machine of interest is busy typing this right now, so I 
tried it on another machine sitting in console mode. I came 
in from a remote machine in an xterm. At the console 
machine's prompt, I typed `startx` and the console machine's 
monitor leapt into X, with all the startx stdout being 
displayed on the remote machine. I didn't know you could do 
that - I've never ran startx from anywhere but the console 
before. I had assumed with DISPLAY etc not set that the 
machine running startx wouldn't know where to display. I 
guess I need to look into which machine is the X server and 
which one is the client and which one looks for DISPLAY etc. 
I've never been able to keep that straight.

Neato. I'm ready for next sunday morning.

The problem I was really trying to solve was how to get the 
login prompt back on the machine with X crashed and have 
that machine running in console mode. Do you know how to do 
that?

Thanks

Joe
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