-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 April 2004 18:14, GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote: <SNIP>
Hi,
I am not sure *exactly* what your question is ??? However, I will share some observations.
First, i am careful what I have running, when I open up any "hardware" probe dialogs, including "printer", sax2 and "hwinfo" whether via the Control Center or the Command Line. (However, because of the "gui's" adding extra layer the CC is probably more prone to "flackiness. YMMV)
However, if the machine "locks-up", usually I can "Ctrl+Alt+Esc" the process ("skull and cross bones") and kill the "locked-up" gui via my mouse pointer.
If that doesn't work, then opening a virtual terminal and looging in as root, and then doing: ps -A will allow me to see what is running.
Sometimes because of child processes, kill doesn't want to work, so you need to kill the later process before killing the "starting" one.
kill -9 pid usually works. (see: man kill)
Another choice is to do: "init 3" which softly shuts things down on runlevel 5, without re-booting the machine, and then going back to runlevel 5. (ie do: init 5)
Hope this helps, Gar
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Truthfully, I'm not sure what my problem is, either. I just took some drastic action to see if I could get to the bottom of it. Whatever it is/was, a couple of your suggestions did work but others did not work. Fact is, on one occasion I managed to start a new session just before the desktop went into oblivion & the new virtual desktop worked great. Go figure. ...CH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAc15camdq40EXXvQRAuZwAJ9FdhUFFm3zizplMiqHQpwClEGfUACfcetw gdzoj3ee+QhgPkf+X3qpmAM= =qJoD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----