On Sun, 2003-09-07 10:28:48 -0400, Nirmal Govind <nirmalg@psu.edu> wrote in message <[🔎] 200309071028.48764.nirmalg@psu.edu>: > Hi.. my system just hung while I was typing a message in knode.. The relevant > messages from syslog seem to be the following: > > Sep 7 10:09:28 ibook kernel: SysRq : HELP : loglevel0-8 reBoot tErm kIl > l saK showMem showPc unRaw Sync showTasks Unmount > Sep 7 10:09:31 ibook kernel: SysRq : Emergency Sync > Sep 7 10:09:31 ibook kernel: Syncing device 03:0b ... <6>SysRq : HELP : > loglevel0-8 reBoot tErm kIll saK showMem showPc unRaw Sync showTasks Un > mount > Sep 7 10:09:31 ibook kernel: SysRq : HELP : loglevel0-8 reBoot tErm kIl > l saK showMem showPc unRaw Sync showTasks Unmount > Sep 7 10:09:31 ibook kernel: OK > Sep 7 10:09:31 ibook kernel: Done. > Sep 7 10:17:11 ibook syslogd 1.4.1#11: restart. > > I had to do a hard reboot on my ibook... I'm running a 2.4.20-ben10 kernel > with KDE 3.1.. Any ideas on what may have caused the crash? Your keyboard is gone mad and/or you pressed the SysRq key(s). If you didn't do that intentionally, you can disable SysRq by not compiling in support for it or through /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq . MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(IRAQ_WAR_2 | DRM | TCPA));
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