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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@dog.topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 22:11:49 +1030

killing KDE gently

Solution to KDE freeze-up problem. Maybe....


Here's a solution to a problem - for a change.
(For me, at least.)

Today, yet again, my KDE windows all went into 
freeze mode. I.e. the mouse was moving the cursor,
but nothing from the mouse or the keyboard had any influence
on the window system at all.
Note even ctl-alt-F4 etc. worked.

In the past, I've asked in desperation how to kill this all
off remotely from another machine over the net
without having to re-boot.
And in the past, I've been able to kill the windows - but without
being able to use the machine at all from the keyboard etc.
I.e. I always had to re-boot.
And since this is an important part of linux "face",
I wanted a clean window killing method.

Well here's my tentative solution.

Go in to the machine remotely and become root.
Then kill the process /usr/X11/bin/X with normal
kill level (15 by default, I think).
Leave processes like kwm alone, and xinit etc.
Just go for "X".
The all of the windows fall down nicely, and you're
left with a clean "DOS prompt"  -- I mean a csh or
bash prompt, of course -- on a black screen.

Can anyone else confirm that this does the job?
My KDE (with SuSE 6.2) freezes up about once every
few weeks. I'm sure that other people have this
problem too.

Cheerio,
Alan Kennington.

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