What is one supposed to do, when X (4.1.0, don't remember the date)
hangs hard (on 1.5.2/i386). By hanging hard I mean that X crashes, but
as it goes, it crashes the display with it:

 1. the display freezes, and doesn't drop to console mode
 2. virtual consoles can't be switched
 3. no use trying to kill X, as it is already dead

I was able to log in to the computer using telnet, but that's it.
I couldn't recover the display, so I had to reboot.

Also, I could drop to DDB (since telnet stopped responding), and
continue from there, but still the frozen X screen stayed on.

Somehow, this feels as a bug of some kind.

(As I wrote the above, I realize that I didn't try to actually
restart X... from the telnet login for example. Would that have worked?)


In any case, the crash seemed to be somekind of race condition
or such: I started galeon, and while it loaded its pages I tried
to move the window... and boom.

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