How do I KILL this thing?
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Nefertiti Nefarious
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05-08-2007 17:30
It's locked up, the screen is solid black, and I have no clue how to get rid of it.
(third day on Ubuntu)
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Drake Bacon
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05-08-2007 18:40
From: Nefertiti Nefarious It's locked up, the screen is solid black, and I have no clue how to get rid of it.
(third day on Ubuntu) Open up a terminal and say "killall do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin" If that doesn't work, put a -9 in the space between those two "words".
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Nefertiti Nefarious
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05-08-2007 19:55
Thanks.
I also found a pointy-clicky process manager
System => System Monitor
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Tegg Bode
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05-09-2007 02:38
From: Nefertiti Nefarious It's locked up, the screen is solid black, and I have no clue how to get rid of it.
(third day on Ubuntu) Is your monitor turned on? Graphic card died perhaps? Computer even starting? Hard drive starting up?
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Ee Maculate
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05-09-2007 02:39
From: Tegg Bode Is your monitor turned on? ROFL |
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Nefertiti Nefarious
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05-09-2007 11:01
From: Tegg Bode Is your monitor turned on? Graphic card died perhaps? Computer even starting? Hard drive starting up? Uh ... yes the monitor was on and the computer running. How do you think I was typing on a forum. The SL screen was solid black. |
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Tegg Bode
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05-09-2007 13:06
From: Nefertiti Nefarious Uh ... yes the monitor was on and the computer running. How do you think I was typing on a forum. The SL screen was solid black. Hmm you could have 2 monitors or 2 computers? You didn't exactly supply us with a heap of information so we can pretty much assume anything, this "thing" you want us to help you kill could even be your TV set for all we know...............
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Drake Bacon
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05-09-2007 18:44
From: Nefertiti Nefarious Uh ... yes the monitor was on and the computer running. How do you think I was typing on a forum. The SL screen was solid black. I think what folks were asking is "Were you in Windowed mode or completely full screen?"
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Corax Homewood
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05-10-2007 07:31
From: Nefertiti Nefarious It's locked up, the screen is solid black, and I have no clue how to get rid of it.
(third day on Ubuntu) You know what, I had absolutely no trouble at all understanding that. Give the newbie a break! The instructions given (how to use the kill command) are appropriate, since anybody can do that. One note I'd like to make here: After the first time I had SL lock up while in full-screen mode, I decided to keep it in windowed mode so as to avoid having to kill my window manager to get out. |
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Katrina Bekkers
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05-10-2007 10:30
From: Corax Homewood One note I'd like to make here: After the first time I had SL lock up while in full-screen mode, I decided to keep it in windowed mode so as to avoid having to kill my window manager to get out. Addendum to your note: you can *always* return in a text-only environment from X, and from there kill the stuck SL client. Use the key combination CTRL-ALT-F1, and you'll reach a text login prompt. Log in as your user, and issue the usual killall do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin command to terminate the client, and get back your screen. Once done, switch back to X with ALT-F7 (usually, it's F7, you could try ALT-Fn, till you hit the graphical console). |
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Corax Homewood
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05-11-2007 02:17
From: Katrina Bekkers Addendum to your note: you can *always* return in a text-only environment from X, and from there kill the stuck SL client. Use the key combination CTRL-ALT-F1, and you'll reach a text login prompt. Log in as your user, and issue the usual killall do-not-directly-run-secondlife-bin command to terminate the client, and get back your screen. Once done, switch back to X with ALT-F7 (usually, it's F7, you could try ALT-Fn, till you hit the graphical console). Yes, that's the first thing I do in that situation. But as I recall (it was a while ago and I only let it happen once), I was not able to get my X session back again; even after the process was killed the screen stayed black. So I still had to do ctrl-alt-bkspace to kill the X server and start over. There have been a few updates since then, perhaps I'll try it once more, though there's never many assurances when you rely on old binary-only drivers from Nvidia and a Geforce-2 graphics card which they no longer support. |