This may already have been reported. Sorry, but I would not know. Because I lost a great many e-mail due to an unrelated computer problem so I would not know if it had.
Twice now I have managed to Lock my computer up hard. Very Hard. Keyboard is locked. Both the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights are flashing continuously The mouse is dead and I cannot function key or escape to another log in. The only alternative that I have found is a computer reset. As I say this has happen twice. I think the same scenario caused both except the first occurred almost two nights ago when I was very focused on a completely different and unrelated problem with a different computer (Windows actually). The second just occurred and I remember it with very good detail. I was trying to copy a file from my hard drive (FAT32 C drive partition) to a FAT floppy so that I could solve this problem on the WIN machine. What I did was to drag the file in Konqueror from the files list on the right onto the /mnt/floppy icon in the directory tree at the left. In both cases the copy procedure started as though it was going to function correctly and then soon after the copy progress dialogue popped up the system Hung Hard!! Of course Linux fsked the drives on reboot and I do not think there is any real damage. Thank God for a journalizing filling system. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux user #264340 Mandrake Linux 9.0 beta 4 - Kernel 2.4.19-5mdk XFree86 4.2.0 - KDE 3.0.3 and Gnome 2.0
