[KLUG Members] Linux Freeze-up

Mark Bystry mabystry at verizon.net
Tue May 31 10:51:01 EDT 2005


i can honestly say that i have never gotten into the console by Ctrl-Alt-F1. once in the concole how 
do you resume X again?

Mark Bystry
SuSE 9.3 Pro
KDE 3.4.0


Tim Gray wrote the following on 5/31/2005 7:45 AM:
> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 
> 
>>Try Crtl-Alt-F1 to access the console.  Probably just killing Mozilla
>>would restore control to you.
> 
> 
> More generally, after the Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a console run "top" to
> find out what process(es) are eating up all the cycles and killing
> those.  You can exit top to do the killing or do it from within top.
> 
> Just in case you have such a lock-up in the future and aren't sure what
> program is the culprit.
> 
> --Tim
> 
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