Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

[Mark Weaver]

No...another machine I have, but they're not networked yet. I was
wondering what to do when the occassional hard freeze happens. Thankfully
it doesn't happen very often with Linux and I REALLY hate doing hard
boots when it does.

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Mark
  
  ** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
        
        

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > Ok...I'm still a little foggy on this console stuff. I'm only half
> > there. So, if my desktop freezes as it has once or twice since I've
> > started working with Linux,(about 14 months), and CTL-ALT-BACKSPACE
> > doesn't take me out of X, then will CTL-ALT-Fx (x = 1-6) get me there
> > without having to do a hardboot and risk filesystem damage?
> > 
> Maybe. If your capslock and numlock work (i.e. the lights blink when
> you switch 'em) it SHOULD work, but you may be completely locked.
> OTOH, if you have another computer and can telnet or ssh in, that
> might be the best way to gracefully reboot.
>       John
> 
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