HELP! solaris 10 stuck in (gnome) "Add to Panel" window, can't exit it
David Combs
login window (I'd been in emacs, and also ssh to an isp) --
have no idea how it got into that login state, but I
typed in my name and password, and ended up in CDE (I'd
been using gnome).
So in options I chose gnome, and ended up in a dark-blue
full-screen window (if that's what it was -- window),
solid, nothing at all in it, except way up at the top
left corner was (still is) a tiny (I mean tiny!) white
square.
Right click on that, and four choices popped up, seemed
to have no effect except for "add panel", I think that's
what it said, so, for lack of anything else to do, I
clicked that.
Up springs a window/panel/whatever that said as title
"add panel", with a clear white space under it, as
the rest of the window/panel/whatever.
In its upper-right corner is the usual "X", but looks
greyed out to me.
Anyway, nothing does anything.
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Now, what I was doing when I left the machine -- I was
in gnome, in emacs, also with firefox and several other
things up, and the last thing I did in emacs was to
via dired copy 51 files into a usb flash-drive.
That done, I pulled out the flash drive and took it
to the vicinity of another computer, a PC, which I'm
using now to post this.
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Anyway, I haven't a clue as to how to get out of
that gnome thing I'm in. I'd like to get somewhere
I can type shutdown. Not too eager to hit stop-A.
So, this question: any secret key sequences (other
than stop-A) that'll get me out that process or job
or login?
Or just grit my teeth and do Stop A (L1-A)?
Please respond ASAP, because this hurricane is just
about to hit -- rain is heavy, wind is picking up,
and I'd like to shut down, turn off the UPS, etc.
THANK YOU!
Oh, if you need to actually talk me through
something, here's my phone number, good for
now at least (wind not yet high enough for
a tree to fall on the phone wires! (Here
just 10 miles north of the Bronx (NY City).
Thanks again!
David
Scott
Try remotely ssh'ing into the host and pkill dtsession for CDE.
Maybe gnome-session-save --kill for gnome.
Regards, Scott
David Combs
Thanks much!
Unfortunately an hour or so after I posted my question,
and non reply yet, I did the stop-a.
I sure hope it wasn't writing to the disk when I
did it. I assume it wasn't, since it had been
hung (if that's the right word in this situation)
for an hour or so -- presumably nothing happening.
Your trick is nice indeed!
Questions:
You say "remotely ssh'ing into the host".
How to do that. Ah ha -- via a different
computer, of course!
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Not sure how to do this. Now, if the hung system
is at a web-site, then ssh can get me there.
But suppose the two machines are on the same local
network -- how to log into one machine from
another one? (It's probably simple, but I have
never done it!)
What, use those 268.x.y.z id's as address?
Your solution I have seen it suggested here
before. I just wish I had remembered it.
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Hurricane: maybe 5.5 inches of rain overall (I measured
it, got 4.5 inches, but not too sure how much
and already fallen when I took a pot outside,
not under any trees).
LOTS of wind. Came out of the east. Then
died down a bit, but soon resumed, maybe even
harder than before, but this time from the
opposite direction, ie from the west. (Circular
flow passing overhead -- of course direction changed.)
I saw only maybe four trees down, none where I am.
Lost power 6pm sunday, cranked up my Coleman
generator at 8pm, ran for 30 min, then turned
if off. What was being powered? Refrigerator,
plus big fan at the exaust of the generator
to blast the fumes way out from the screened-in
portch with one of the screens removed so as
not impede the fan-air.
Ran it again at 9pm, for 15 min (ie same
as 30 min for 2 hours period for refrigerator),
and then when I was about to do it a third time,
power came back on.
I wonder what kind of a crappy 110v AC came
out of that thing. Don't think I'd want
to plug a computer into it. And I think
I read that the APC UPS I have (#600, I
think it is) does NOT do much cleaning of
the probably-crappy waveform.
So, that's my hurricane story, for New
Rochelle, NY.
David
Scott
> In article <78eb692b-e185-45e4-b912-c1df93e1c...@c8g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
I have Google email me a digest of the group, so I read the group
1 day delayed, and reply delayed too.
Your host is probably running sshd in the background. Is this Solaris
10?
svcs -a | grep ssh
should tell you if it's enabled or not.
svcadm enable svc:/network/ssh:default
Obviously it has to be running before the screen freezes.
From another host, just ssh -xl <remote-user> <stuck-hostname-or-IP>
and you should be in.
Regards, Scott
David Combs
Thanks!
Will soon post another question about gnome -- something's gone wrong,
everything squished into a 1/3-inch wide column at the left side of
the screen. Have NO idea what is happening, or how it got that way!
(Used to work fine.)
(So I, for now, use cde, trying and failing to remember how to
cycle through all the windows. Front just bounces between the
most recent two of them.)
David