hirohitosan Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Hi there. Today my X server has crashed. I was working in OOWriter and suddenly the application doesn't respond and I killed OO window using Xkill. After that I couldn't open O office so I tried to restart the X server. At that moment everything frozen. Keyboard, mouse, everything. I had to restart my computer with reset button. I don't know what cause that crash. Can I check some logs or something? Or if it works again I don't have to be worry? Another crash: I connect through ssh to a server using console (Alt F2) after a while, maybe the connection with server was lost and the console is frozen too. I cannot use keyboard on that console. I don't know how to “kill” a console. For example if I login on another console (Alt+F3) how to kill console 2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 What version of Mandriva again? 2006? Have you applied all updates to your system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirohitosan Posted September 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 What version of Mandriva again? 2006? Have you applied all updates to your system? I use Mandriva 2006 and I applied all updates to my system. Now it works again after restarting, but I didn't understand what was happened. I didn't aspect at such severe crash. And about killing a console which doesn't respond, any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Check /var/log/messages, /var/log/dmesg and /home/username/.xsession-errors for debugging. For killing, try the "kill" or "killall" the pid number displayed for the frozen terminal with e.g. "top". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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