Thread: How to restart gnome?

Quote: Originally Posted by DBelton well, if the keyboard is dead, and the mouse clicks don't work, I don't see how you are going to restart gnome. unless you are referring to being able to ssh in and then run xkill and xinit Read the second paragraph of my original post I can ssh into the computer... Jerry

Quote: Originally Posted by daniel_I_l init 3 doesn't kill X. It just puts you in console mode. You have to kill X explicitly before starting it again. If you don't, you'll get a "X is already running" error. try to init 3, then ps ax | grep X. or, init 3, then login, and then startx. i know what im talkin about... ps and what about putting in console mode.. and whats for is ctrl+alt+f[2-6]?

Quote: Originally Posted by zythar how to kill X? init 3 maybe? then init 5. init 3 doesn't kill X. It just puts you in console mode. You have to kill X explicitly before starting it again. If you don't, you'll get a "X is already running" error.

+1 for init3 and starting manually. Just adding it wouldn't hurt to: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep ww Cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep EE And do a lspci, it'd be nice to know what type of video card card you have and if there are know issues.

have you tried going to text mode (alt+ctrl+f2)? then xkill, xinit, then gnome-session. but if i were you i would start checking /var/log/messages for any hints to what's going wrong...

well, if the keyboard is dead, and the mouse clicks don't work, I don't see how you are going to restart gnome. unless you are referring to being able to ssh in and then run xkill and xinit

smells like an Xorg issue to me have you tried a different de? My laptop does this when it gags on some opengl screensaver it doesn't like. Good Luck, Pat Jr.