In addition, to safely restart your computer after a forkbomb has been initiated, you can hold ALT-SysRq and press R E I S U B with about 5 seconds in between each letter. This will safely unmount your filesystems before restarting, so you do not incur filesystem corruption.
-- ubuntu freezes completely (all graphics and mouse) when executing shell ascii forkbomb https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163185 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
