[NTLUG:Discuss] How to revive local console

[terry]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:51 AM, terry<trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>


If the screensaver is looking your system up, why not just turn it off?

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