[ale] killing X

[chrish at ifsintl.com (Chris Hamilton)]

> After 52 days of up time I finally had to telnet in and reboot my linux box. 
> Somehow I hung the console running an assortment of applications.  How does one
> regain control of the console once it locks up in X when "ctrl + alt +
> backspace" won't do it and "ps -x" showes no X server or applications running.

Have you tried: CTRL+ALT+F1 (or some other function key). Typically, this 
will get you to a text-based tty while you're in X, then ALT+F7 to get
back into X.

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Christopher Hamilton            Internal System Administrator
chrish at ifsintl.com              IFS International, Inc.