On 1 Mar, Robin Schoonover wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 20:23:05 -0800 (PST), Don Lewis wrote: >> On 1 Mar, Brian F. Feldman wrote: >> > Why in the world are you going around recompiling ports and changing >> > dotfiles to find a lock-up? Either X is having problems, or the kernel >> > is having problems. Go to the _CONSOLE_ and execute the programs that >> > are "causing" the "lock-up" and you will stand a chance at actually >> > finding and fixing whatever is going wrong. >> > >> > Ctrl-Alt-F1 >> > <login> >> > DISPLAY=:0.0 firefox >> > >> > (or whatever) >> >> That's really a neat trick. I think it deserves to be documented >> somewhere. >> > > It is. X(1) (man X) > > You may need to install XFree86-manuals (x11/XFree86-4-manuals). I've set $DISPLAY many times over the years, but ... > Although, being this is really about debugging system trouble, it may be a > good idea to document with whatever other stuff we have about the subject. Yeah, I meant in the context of debugging the system. It would eliminate the need for a serial console in a number of cases. It never occured to me to try this trick when attempting to debug a system crash or lockup while X is running.Received on Mon Mar 01 2004 - 19:55:33 UTC
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