-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2018-02-11 at 12:26 -0500, Michael Fischer wrote:
On Sun, Feb 11, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
did your "kill" operation actually kill a process? what ",etc" was tried? and i "assume" 'did absolutely nothing' actually means it didn't do what you expected or ...
`kill -9 pidof X` didn't kill X. Screen didn't change, and over the ssh session, `ps` showed X still there, with the same pid. This is what I meant by "did abosolutely nothing".
Maybe the process went "zombie".
As ~/.xsession-errors was full of noise about browser problems, I killed firefox and chrome processes, which did work (pids no longer in `ps`, sound cut out from the movie I was watching in chrome), but the screen did not update (i.e. the browser windows were still there, unchanged).
Yes, that happens till the X process really dies. And -9 means it doesn't get a chance to restore the screen. I suggest using "ps afxu | less -S" to find the hierarchy of processes and kill the parents. But if the video driver is hung badly... maybe nothing restores it.
What does the CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, BACKSPACE sequence actually do "under the hood"? If my keyboard were responsive, I'd have tried that.
are you asking and answering or is the quoting obscured?
Hmm. Asking. Sorry if that somehow came out with confusing quoting.
is your keyboard freezing causing the problem? is your mouse still active?
No idea if keyboard freezing is *causing* the problem. To me it seems like more of a symptom. As stated in the original email, each of the screen, mouse and keyboard freeze together. There is simply no interactivity whatsoever.
Yes, it is a symptom. IMO :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlqAzFoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VdjACfSE6d3F7a4jtkuuqLXA6Gxrmn hjcAn2ePsVDp323sRCEns+XeUih1O0rb =gxv6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org