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  • Have you done anything to determine that it is X hanging, and not the whole box? Are you able to ssh into the box from another? What is the X process doing (top, ps, etc)? Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 20:56
  • Amarok continues to play music until I restart X. And the fact I can ctrl-alt-F1 and blindly type in a restart-of-X indicates to me that it's not everything that is locked. Commented Aug 25, 2014 at 21:04
  • try using the textmode utility from svgalib-bin on tty1 Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 21:48