From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from home.rdsnet.ro ([193.231.236.40] helo=relay1.home.ro) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 179dkj-0000wr-00 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 23:22:29 -0400 Received: (qmail 15000 invoked from network); 20 May 2002 03:22:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp) (213.233.73.189) by s1.home.ro with SMTP; 20 May 2002 03:22:31 -0000 Message-ID: <035e01c1ffad$b947f390$bd49e9d5@microsoft.com> From: "Octavian Rasnita" To: References: Subject: Re: Get Out Of Jail Free! Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 05:53:14 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi, Thank you, a few questions: 1.) Become root in another console and kill the application Q: How to become root in another console? that is giving you trouble. In Octavian's example the application is emacs, so here's the appropriate command for root to give in another console: killall emacs 2.) If all else fails, kill the console session as root from another console. get a listing of everything running in the console where you got stuck. If that console is tty1, for example, you would do: ps -t tty1 This will print out a list of all the running processes in tty1. Find the one that says "bash" on the right hand side of the line, and note the process id, called pid, on the left. Then kill that pid as follows: kill -9 pid where pid is the process id you identified for bash above. Q: How can I read the screen if emacspeak is not speaking? I want to find out the PID of the process I should kill. There are more elegant ways to get out of trouble, but these two will keep you learning and keep you from wasting time rebooting. To learn more about these things look at the man pages for killall, kill, pidof, and ps. Thanks. -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup