On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 07:49:34PM -0700, jdow wrote:
> On 2011/08/10 18:04, Yasha Karant wrote:
> >I have attempted to get a misbehaving X windows system to restart without
> >rebooting the machine. In the past, as I recall, ctrl-alt-backspace would do
> >this. This evidently has been disabled with the current X windows releases
> >on Linux, including SL 6 . What is the current equivalent (perhaps a shell
> >command), or how does one reactivate a control sequence to force the X
> >server to exit and restart/reinitialize, with a fresh login screen?
> >
> >I have found some references using a web search to this issue for a number
> >of current Linux distributions, but none of the offered "cures" seem to work
> >with SL 6 (or presumably any RHEL 6 variant).
> >
> >Yasha Karant
> 
> Push comes to shove go to a console, (alt-f2) and use "telinit 3" followed
> by "telinit 5". I am SURE somebody else has a better solution. This is
> sort of like taking a 500 ton punch press to kill a fly.
> 
> {^_-}

Try adding

  Option "DontZap" "false"

To the ServerFlags section in xorg.conf.

This "feature" was disabled by the Xorg folks a while back (around
Fedora 11 time).

Ray