[TriLUG] recovering from X crash

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

This is a home machine and I can recover by rebooting, but 
I'd like a better way.

I run all my big cronjobs on sat night (backup, disk 
health...) and sometimes on sunday morning, my screen is 
blank/black and not responsive to the keyboard/mouse. Coming 
in from another machine, I find X isn't running and I see 
page allocation errors in the logs. Presumaby the machine 
has run out of memory and X was killed.

Is there a way to bring up the console login on the machine 
again?

Thanks Joe
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