On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:05:22PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I just experienced my first ever system lockup. No mouse, no keyboard with > an Iceape screen open. > > I had saved a posting regarding SYSRQ and I tried Alt-Sysrq k then > Alt-Sysrq i and the Alt-Sysrq b with no response. > In desperation I crashed and rebooted the system. I am using linux-image > 2.6.21-2-686. When the system came up I entered grep SYSRQ > /boot/config-$(uname -r) and got the response CONFIG_MAGIC-SYSRQ=y > > > So its there. Either I did something wrong or it doesn't work with the > problem I encountered. > > Tom George > > Were you by chance using flashplayer? When I used to use the flash package I got random crashes and lock ups...When I realized that flash was the cause of these lockups I stopped using it and haven't touched it since. -- If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. - Richard Stallman
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