Re: safe emergency shutdown?
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:25:24PM -0400, Peter Christensen wrote:
> I'm fairly new to Debian and Linux, so this may have the most obvious
> answer, but here's what happened:
>
> I added an application to the panel in kde (I think that's what it's
> called; it's the strip along the bottom where you can click to activate
> the console, help, etc.) This worked OK, but the new icon was hidden
> behind the scroll arrows on the right side, so I tried moving it to the
> left. At that point nothing worked again on the panel. I was able to
> get to the console by doing an alt-F1 (I think) and then shut down the
> system safely. But this morning I tried to remove the new icon from the
> panel. And again, the panel froze, so I couldn't start any applications.
> Also, the keyboard was dead. Alt-Fn didn't work, ctrl-alt-del did
> nothing, and even when I hit the caps-lock the caps-lock light didn't go
> on. The mouse still worked, but I couldn't start any applications. So I
> ended up turning the power off.
>
> I understand that bad things can happen if you just turn off the power while
> Linux is running. But it seemed that I had no alternative. Any idea what
> happened here, and what I should have done to get out of it?
My only guess is that you didn't try ctrl-alt-Fn (but did try it the first
time. Another combo to try is ctrl-alt-backspace, which should kill X.
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David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
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