On Jan 19, 2008 9:39 AM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
If X eats it hard enough (and it does for me about once a month to once every two weeks), the crash will make the magic system request key not so magical. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]