On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:30:21PM -0500, blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
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>> When I first click on a menu, it highlights, but noghting else happens.
>> the mouse cursor still moves, but no clicks or text entry register.
>> At that point I SSH in and start killing processes, then kill -9ing them.
>> The screen stays the same, and I can still signal the processes, but I
>> thinnk they've been removed from the "ps -ef" list.
>>
>> I've had this happen before on a previous debian install when trying to
>> use certain programs. I think games that access graphics directly.
>
> My wife has this happen from time to time on Debian. If X goes down in
> some odd way, it typically doesn't release the screen. The machine
> appears to not be responding, because the screen is just frozen. I
> haven't tried typing "reboot" while that's going on to see if it will
> take the commands. Even killing the console that launched X doesn't
> appears to release the screen. And in fact, SSHing in and killing stuff
> usually doesn't do it either. It usually requires a reboot.
Have you tried the "zap" combo (ctrl-alt-backspace)?
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