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Re: System freezes unexpectedly



* Chris Mayes <cmayes@MailAndNews.com> writes:

> For the most recent time, I was actually sitting at my desk working on stuff 
> when the system froze.  Everything stopped.  I couldn't kill the X server or 
> switch consoles.  The thing was totally frozen.  I've checked the logs, but I 

You could try Alt-SysRq at that point. If you don´t know what that
means, read <kernel-source>/Documentation/sysrq.txt.gz, then try e.g.
Alt-SysRq-s (sync disks), Alt-SysRq-u (remount mounted filesystems
read-only), Alt-SysRq-b (reboot), in that order.

-- 
Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>


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