Did you check to see if the xserver was still running when you were in the
system via telnet?

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:29:13PM +0100, Arto Huusko wrote:
> 
> 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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