Re: total freeze with framebuffer + X
Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 18:30:58 -0500
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 05:32:20PM -0500, Kev wrote:
> > > > Just guessing, but it is generally bad idea to hit X with kill
> > > > -9. When you shutdown and X are running, that _might_ happen. I do
> > > > not know consequences - trashed display is the obvious one.
> >
> > When you're shutting down your computer, trashed displays are irrelevant
> > anyway. Shutting down to single user mode is of course an exception, though,
> > so you do have a point.
>
> consider also shutdown -r now.
that's exactly the case where it is irrelevant.
-- arvind
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