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Re: Dying hard drive?



On Du, 02 dec 12, 09:33:28, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 08:04:52PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > Have a look at the /etc/inittab file.
> > 
> > I have:
> > # less /etc/inittab
> > [...]
> > # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
> > ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
> 
> I'm fairly sure that X eats CTRL-ALT-DEL and init doesn't get to see
> those keypresses: so in X, CTRL-ALT-DEl does not trigger a shutdown.

One way around it is to switch to a console before that (e.g. with
Ctrl+Alt+F1).

Kind regards,
Andrei
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