[Wolves] PC LOCK UP

[Mo Awkati]

 Hi Sparkes

Thanks for the info. You are all helping!!

Mo

--- sparkes <sparkes at phreaker.net> wrote: > On Sun,
2004-01-11 at 09:13, Mo Awkati wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Yet another question!!
> > 
> > If an application locks the keyboard and mouse,
> how
> > can I kill it to get the PC back without having to
> > reset the PC??
> If the keyboard and mouse are really locked up then
> there is little you
> can do.
> 
> Sometimes X gives the impression that it has locked
> up when it hasn't
> really.  If this is the case hitting
> ctrl-alt-backspace a few times
> should restart X in a messy fashion.
> 
> If you can get to another virtual console you can
> find the app that is
> playing up and kill it.  look at 'man ps' and 'man
> kill' for a few ideas
> on how you can sort this out.
> 
> > 
> > Also, if I am running two sessions and I want to
> > terminate one of the sessions how do I do it? Do I
> > just log off, if I do that it prompts me to sign
> in as
> > another user.
> > 
> that means you have terminated the sessions.  Linux
> is a true multiuser
> environment you have terminated a session when you
> log out letting
> another user log in on that terminal.  
> 
> > Thanks
> > 
> no probs Mo, I just hope we are helping
> 
> > Mo
> 
> sparkes
> 
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