On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Nat wrote:
> > at least it doesn't crash the whole OS. :)
>
> Uhhhhhh. . . I've had to reboot the system after Netscape does its
> stuff. With an iMac this is excusable by the still-primitive key mapping
> and crappy Apple keyboard, but a Sun? I think it's more an X-windows
> thing than anything else- even if the rest of the system is fine, how do
> you kill Netscape when it's taken control of your mouse and keyboard? ^C
> and ^D and every thing else didn't do a bit of good.
Try Ctr-Alt-F1 to get a virtual console. Then do "ps aux | grep netscape"
to get Netscape's process id. Then "kill -9" will often do the trick. If
you can't do that, you can try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, which is the key sequence
to kill a running XFree server (assuming that this command is enabled in the
config file). If the console is totally locked up, you can try using SSH
(or telnet if you have to...) to get into the machine and kill netscape.
ccg
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