On Tue, 31 May 2005 15:53:19 -0400, Kuba Ober wrote:
Did you try ssh'ing into the system and executing 'killall X' as root? The mere fact that X doesn't react to keystrokes doesn't necessarily mean that the system is hanging.
If the system no longer responds to keystrokes then it *has* hung and we should treat fixing as it a a+ priority, regardless of what is going on under the hood. There's no difference for users between "X is hung" and "Linux is hung" ...