UI Crash and no restart

[Giles Jones]

On 27 Aug 2007, at 20:19, Jeff Andros wrote:

>
> On 8/27/07, wim delvaux <wim.delvaux at adaptiveplanet.com> wrote: Hi,
>
> I pressed to power button and got the PM menu and asked for a GUI  
> restart.
> Then the backdrop went away and I got a console (messages and all) and
> nothing more.  Had to reboot using USB
>
> W
>
>
> I got the same thing once, I think I was able to fix it by running  
> "/etc/init.d/xserver-nodm restart" through the SSH connection

KDM which comes with KDE has the option to auto-restart X if it  
fails. Something similar for this device would be useful, what use is  
SSH in the middle of a street? :)