[NTLUG:Discuss] How to revive local console

[terry]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Michael Barnes<barnmichael at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu 9.04.  Sometimes I leave it for 10-20 minutes (or
> more) and when I come back, the screen saver is frozen and everything
> seems to be locked up on the local console.  However, everything seems
> to be running.  I can ssh in from another machine and all looks OK.
> I've tried killing things off to try to get the local console back to
> no avail.
>
> Any ideas on how I can revive the local console without rebooting the
> machine?  When I kill the screen saver, the screen generally goes
> black.  Even if I can get it to come back to a login or something.
>
> Thanks for any comments.
>
> Michael
>


When you ssh in, try killing / restarting the X server, (which is what
appears to be locking up).
  /etc/init.d/gdm stop ;  /etc/init.d/gdm  start
or
  /etc/init.d/gdm restart

I assume you are running gnome, but; If you are running KDE:
  /etc/init.d/kdm restart

Before that, it might be interesting to poke around a bit to see
what's happening. I'd first see if the system resources are running
low.
  top
If you look at the top consumers of resources, you may be able to find
the problem.  It might also be time to test your memory. There could
be something wrong with the screensaver application, but I doubt it.

I suppose it could also have something to do with the display adapter
or the kernel module that is running it.
Just out of curiosity, what video card do you have? And what driver
are you using for it?

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