Comment 59 for bug 570151

When it was happening to me, I believe an alternative was to login via SSH
and kill the X11 desktop session (including the display driver). In my
case it was usually quicker to login and just issue a reboot command.

FWIW, after getting the latest NVidia video driver for my three-screen
system and not running "synergy", I haven't had the issue in a long time.
 But, I'm pretty aggressive about keeping updated - I switched to 12.04-x64
about two weeks after release, previous releases were similar.

Dan

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Alex Robinson
<email address hidden>wrote:

> This just happened last night to my Lucid 64 ATI, dual monitor system
> for the 1st time. And it happened again a few minutes ago.
>
> Given that this system has been running Lucid with these two monitors
> for nearly a couple years without this problem, I vote for a very, very
> recent update.
>
> Looking at Synaptic | File | History says the only suspicious looking
> update (on the 13th) is a new linux image, 2.6.32-41. The rest of the
> updates look like programs that would not be involved in low level
> stuff.
>
> Since this problem pretty much freezes the system, does anyone know of a
> better way to recover than the big red button? (By way of ssh, that is.)
>
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