[plug] CTRL-ALT-DEL

[Bernard]

Wayne,

If you're daring you might want to check out Documentation/sysrq.txt
in the kernel source (prolly requires a kernel rebuild). This has
saved my disks a fsck many a time.

B.

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:15:24AM +0800, Brian Tombleson wrote:
> > PREFACE:  In Windows when Windows lock up (which is quite often)
> > and not a lot moves on the screen moves (and I mean nothing) sometimes
> > (and I mean rarely) the key combination CTRL-ALT-DEL will call up
> > processes that may have halted the system.
> 
> > QUESTION:  Is there such a command in Linux when nothing seems to be
> active?
> 
> > SUPP:  I am running a very temperamental AMD at the moment.  It has
> already
> > locked up countless times in Windows - and twice in Linux.
> 
> I'm not a GUI expert, but I'd expect that if you can't do a CTRL-ALT-F1
> (through to F6) to get a virtual terminal up then you probably have a
> hardware lockup that your system won't recover from.
> 
> When it locks up in Windows, can you get a process/task list (ie. the
> CTL-ALT-DEL thing?)?  If your CPU gives out on you, no operating system will
> recover.
> 
> -Brian
> 

-- 
 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au