-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2018-02-11 at 00:08 -0500, Michael Fischer wrote:
Been a while, but I just got hit with the "X, keyboard and mouse all freeze at once" - no getting to another VT. But I could ssh in from another machine. As always when this happens, nothing useable in any logs. Trying to `sudo kill -9 pidof X`, etc.. did absolutely nothing.
Maybe you can order the system to go to virtual console one over the ssh: # chvt 1
After a reboot, I went googl'ing for sysrq, which led me to discover that (a) my keyboard is not mapped for it (fixable), (b) /proc/sysrq-trigger would be just fine over ssh and (c) I can't figure out where output of sysrq's like 'l' (backtrace for all CPUS) goes - if only so that I can tell I've got things set up properly. The web says "goes to console", but on Leap, where the heck is that? If it is hidden by X on 1, is there a way to get it into the journal (journalctl)?
So, I hereby solicit advice on:
1) clever ways to kill things that are locking up my system from an ssh session
Did you try "init 3"? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlqAA1AACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U93gCggTIUSowFx93B99QerrHPtRal kWsAoJjtkibATPmZ9LE77aWfCYvFdO2z =EwCk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org