[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:45:20PM -0700, Tyrion wrote: >> Why, or how would it do this? I would understand crashing firefox, but >> the whole system? > > It freezes X and therefore the keyboard and therefore necessitates a reboot.
WARNING: Keyboard frozen detected. Press any key to continue. Hmmm, I don't quite understand the details, but I've found that keyboard frozen sometimes just means that X (or an X-app) is not playing nice -- not necessarily that keyboard input has stopped. I guess it's the order of handlers in the keyboard chain. Things I try before pulling the switch are, in order: ctrl-alt-f1 (login and kill apps & X and/or telinit 1 then telinit 5) ctrl-backspace (shutdown X (session?)) alt-sysreq S, alt-sysreq U, alt-sysreq B (sync, umount, boot) If the first one works, that would seem to cause the minimum disruption. The second is well known, and AFAIK it unceremoniously kills apps. The third one tries to avoid filesystem problems. Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
