forgive me if you already know this, but are you sure it hard locked ?? In my experience X crashes and takes out the keyboard and mouse, but you can still connect to the machine remotly. When this happens, try pressing ctrl-alt-backspace. X traps this key press and resets the X server giving you control of the machine once again.. probably 7 times out of 10 this works for me...
hth Sz
Ricardo Campos wrote:
I was forced to use a hard reboot last night- grrrrrr! I installed Enlightenment, which went fine until I tried to load a certain theme. Then it came up with "config file missing lines" and asked me to restart or quit E (there was another choice-I don't remember). So I restarted E- it locked my computer up totally, no amount of key-bashing worked. After making a cup of tea, I decided to hard reboot.
Unfortunately, now every time I start Gnome, it goes through this process, even though Sawfish is my WM for E!!! (This has locked the computer up too). I reinstalled E, but this didn't help. Has anyone had the same/similar problem?
Incidentally, another thing that occurred just after that was that my computer CAN connect to the 'net, but for some reason cannot transfer any data at all, meaning I had to reboot into windoze to get online.
grrrrrrrr.... >:| Ricardo
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