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In article <6bct05$bkd@hermes.acs.unt.edu>,
Matthew Eric Vanecek <mev0003@jove1.acs.unt.edu> wrote:
>I was trying to start emacs while using KDE and it locked up the
>computer.

FWIW, I had some trouble with some code I was developing locking up
the X server.  The keyboard and mouse would become inoperable, but I
suspected that it was just X that was locked, not the whole OS.  So
before I ran this program, I went to another shell and put in a long
'sleep' command, followed by a kill command to kill the X server.
When it locked up, I waited for the sleep to expire, and it killed X
and put me back into VGA mode (I always run X after I login with
'startx').

This may give you a clue as to what's hanging.  Also, it's a lot
cleaner than having to hit the reset button (I still have nightmares
from losing a bunch of files back in kernel 0.99 due to having to
reboot from an X hang).

BTW, if you are on a network (or have a dumb terminal you can hook up
to a serial port), you can see if it's still alive that way, too, and
avoid having to reset.
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