[TriLUG] recovering from X crash

[Rick DeNatale]

On 2/26/06, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Matthew Lavigne wrote:
>
> > Joe,
> >
> > If you can ssh in, then you should be able to init 3 the box.
>
> Matthew and Randy,
>
> I should have mentioned that init 3 didn't give back the
> console prompt. I didn't try init 5 as I expected that this
> would attempt to bring up X on the remote machine (although
> I don;t know). I didn't try alt F1 (I did try ctrl-alt
> F1..F10 but that didn't work - maybe I've forgotten the
> syntax for virtual screens and it's alt Fx).

It's ctrl-alt-Fx in an X session, but only alt-Fx in a terminal session.

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Rick DeNatale

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