Re: those problems where the easiest thing to do seems to be to reboot...
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, CND OConnor wrote:
> 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know
> it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii
> characters you didn't know you had.
'reset' will cure this. That's the command 'reset', not reset the system
:}
> 2) X crashes (hasn't for a while actually) and dumps you in a grey
> screen with a mouse pointer and nothing else. (That would be running
control-alt-backspace will boot you out of X and back to console. If you
have xdm it will restart, otherwise you go back to whatever console you
started X from.
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