[K12OSN] gray screen with X mouse cursor

[Robert Harrelson]

We fix this by doing the following (as root):

      ps -ef | grep defunct

If the problem is a defunct process (which it always is for me), you'll
get output like this:

      [USER NAME]     4065  3697  0 16:00 ?        00:00:00
[getstyle-gnome <defunct>]

and then

      kill -9 [process ID]

where [process ID] is the second of the two numbers that show up in the
response to the ps listing. In the example above, you would do 

      kill -9 3697

This works consistenly for us.

Robert





On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:23, Doug Simpson wrote:
> This keeps coming up, I know, how how do you fix it and they is it 
> continuing to be an issue. . .
> 
> Seems it could be fixed ahead of time. . .
> 
> Terminal boots but get just the gray X screen with the mouse pointer.
> 
> What to do?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Doug Simpson
> Technology Specialist
> DeQueen Public Schools
> DeQueen, AR 71832
> simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
> Tux for President!
> 
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