On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:35:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: ... > > But sometimes bugs in applications can cause a complete freeze of > X, incl. keyboard and mouse. It happens to me about once a year, > unfortunately also yesterday evening. In such a case there is > nothing you can do but pull the plug.
Not true. Learn this: http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/linux/magic-sysrq-050503/page1.html I haven't had a post-freeze fsck since I started Alt-sysrq-s before pulling the plug. A
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