On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 17:13, Mark Weaver wrote:
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Mark;
I think he's referring to the series of steps in
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/ref/ts-system-freeze.html
> Hi Terry,
>
> I seriously doubt you've got a virus. If you do, and I don't think thats
> what it is, then that would be something very new. Secondly, what is
> "alt sysrqst key sequence"? I've never heard of that for restarting a
> linux machine. OTOH, if you're refering to CTRL+ALT+DEL then that would
> and should usually restart a machine unless it is seriously locked up at
> which point the only way to get one going again is a hard boot.
> ( hitting the reset button. )
>
> To my knowledge there are only two viruses in the linux world and they
> haven't been around for quite some time. So I really don't think thats
> your problem. It sounds more like a hardware problem. Could be bad RAM
> that is causing the kernel some very nasty headaches. Has this machine
> ever acted strangely before? Are you sure no one else had access to the
> machine while you were away? Did you load any new software on the
> machine before going away and shutting it down that may have been
> compromised?
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