Have you checked the effect of sending the Xserver's process group a TERM
or KILL signal?

For some reason i suspect your Xserver isn't cleaning up after itself and
that it's not a fault of netbsd.

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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, James Wetterau wrote:

> 
> Testing running several slightly different sets of programs proved to
> my satisfaction that the culprit is X.  Specifically, when running the
> X server, if I shutdown now or kill -s TERM 1 I can wait five minutes
> and still my system will be unresponsive to the keyboard and
> apparently hung.  X will shut down, but that's it.  I'm using X11R6 as
> shipped with NetBSD 1.3.2 for i386, on a machine with a K6 300MHz chip
> and 64MBs of RAM.
> 
> If I don't run X I can get into single-user mode with no difficulty.
> 
> Any thoughts on how I can remedy this, or what further information I
> should provide?  Should I take this question elsewhere?
> 
> All the best,
> James Wetterau
>