On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:25:24 -0400 Peter Christensen <christenpet@snip.net> 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? > > Thanks, > Peter Christensen I've found that 9 out of 10 times a Linux system appears locked, you can still login over a network connection. Since I have a lan here at my house anyway, I always have ssh running as a daemon in the background and it provides a handy way to login as root and kill the frozen processes, or in a worst case scenario tell it to reboot. HTH, Jacob ----- GnuPG Key: 1024/16377135 In a world without fences, who needs Gates? http://www.linux.org/
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