On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:22:24 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > The only way out is to hit the reset button: eg Ctl-Alt-F2 doesn't work.
If you have MAGIC_SYSREQ enabled in your kernel config, you can do a clean reboot fro the majority of lockups by holding Alt and SysRq and pressing S, U and B in sequence, which respectively sync your drives, unmount them (and remount read-only) and reboot. It's a lot more friendly to your filesystems than hitting the reset button and should work unless the kernel has crashed. As for the cause, faulty memory has already been mentioned and I would go along with that. The fact that it happens when you have several sessions running, and thus working memory harder, adds weight to the likelihood of this. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 24: New classic
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