[Lvlug] cntl-alt-delete

Linc Fessenden linc@thelinuxlink.net
Thu, 6 Jun 2002 08:38:58 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, ptis not wrote:

> 
> Hi group,
> 
> Some advice please...... 
> 
> what do I do when my system locks up?    I'm running
> on a x86 platform.     
> 
> Is there a way to wake up and gracefully shutdown
> without doing a hard reset?  

It's locking up in Linux?  What's locking up and where's it locking up?
Ideally, you should be able to get into a different vt and kill the locked
processes and restart them.  In all the years I have used Linux I may have
only had to actually cold-reboot the system 2 or 3 times...

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-Linc Fessenden

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