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[Matt Price <matt.price@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12-09-17 05:38 PM, Jason Apol wrote:
> Matt - How does one "recover from the crash by switching to VT1"?
>
> I'd be happy if I can get to some kind of desktop and save my work.
Ctrl-Alt-F1 will take you to a "Virtual Terminal" -- it's a console 
screen where you can log in just as you would at the gnome-terminal 
prompt.  Then you issue those commands, and switch back to the running X 
session, which is running on VT7, with Ctrl-Alt-F7.  you cna switch 
between the 6 built-in VT's with F1-F6; f7 is the default X session; F8 
seems to echo system log messages unless you log in a second user, with 
'Swtitch User', at which point a new X session will start on that screen.

Does that help?

ps -- My success rate is not that high -- at best I usually end up with 
a barely-functional x system, try to save as much work as I can, then 
restart X with 'sudo restart lightdm', which destroys my X session but 
also resets whatever that display bug is.  At worst the resultant 
session is just as nonresponsive as the original crashed one.

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Title:
  [i965] Resume from suspend leaves me with black screen or a screen of
  the desktop before it suspended. Compiz hung in
  intel_update_renderbuffers() from intel_prepare_render() from
  brw_draw_prims()

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