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In <Pine.LNX.4.10.9905300528400.440-100000@acacia.datacomm.com> Ted Rolle (ted@acacia.datacomm.com) wrote:
> I am having unfortunate experiences with Linux.
> It seems that Netscape can cause it to lock up so tightly that I need to
> hit the power switch to get it back. This is NOT good.

Hm. I NEVER seen such behaviour. Yes, X can lock keyboard and mouse sometimes
but to lock the whole system ???

> It seems that the OS should be able to detect a rogue application
> and take some corrective action -- just letting me log in on a different
> terminal to kill the offending process would be sufficient.

Use Ctrl-Alt-SysRq :-)

> Of course, there is the possibility that my configuration is incorrect...

> Can someone help out?

Since X has full control over keyboard (raw mode!) you can not switch to other
console without X help... You can return keyboard from raw mode via
Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-R ... Atl-Fx will work then...

P.S. I assume you have kernel 2.2 with SysRq support enabled, of course...




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