Get Out Of Crash Without Rebooting

[Square Bottle]

So when we talked a while ago about how remarkably stable Sabayon is, I remember somebody saying something about how even when it crashes, you don't need to reboot if you know your stuff.

I fiddled around the next time my computer crashed, pressing Alt-F2 and trying the "startx" command after logging in since it appeared to be a terminal of some kind, but that didn't work.

At any rate, what's the trick here?

[ajez]

if there's a X server crash, I would try (personally):

from shell, become root (type su) and then i will type:

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/etc/init.d/xdm restart

[pxc]

If you just lose your window borders (IE beryl crashes) you can go to an open konsole, or use the k menu -> run -> kwin (or beryl again).

[mdmarmer]

Also see here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_Sk ... rly_Boring

Of couse first try pressing <Ctrl><Escape> to get KDE SysGuard

Mike