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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:40:26 -0400
- From: Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: X dying
- In-Reply-To: <6nyy9pq@rpi.edu>
- References: <6nyy9pq@rpi.edu>
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- Whenever the X server dies (without shutting down properly first),
- keyboard input appears to go nowhere from thereafter. A user can hose
- the keyboard by starting X and then kill -9'ing the X process. What is
- needed is some way (maybe in the kernel) where if X dies badly, the
- screen and keyboard are restored. (i.e. an automatic release of
- resources used by a destroyed process, preferably right when it becomes
- a zombie). On the decstations here, kill -9'ing X makes the screen go
- back to normal very quickly. Yeah, I know kill -9'ing an X server is
- rude, but a user might do it (or have to do it). Also, if X seg-faults,
- or can't start due to a bad/missing mode line or something, it will
- also hose the display the same way kill -9 does.
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