How to bring Fedora Core 3 to its knees!

[James Knott]

Paul King wrote:
> Okay, kiddies! Here's what you do ... 
> Stick a defective CD in your CD-ROM bay and run the "find" command.
> It works until it comes to something wrong in one of the directories,
> then the kernel starts ripping through so many I/O errors (seemingly
> dozens per second), that your only choice is to reboot, even if you have
> files open. You can't bring down X (ctrl+alt+backsapce); you can't ctrl
> +alt+delete; you can't do SFA!
> 
> Works like a charm :-)

What happens if you press ctl-alt-esc and then click on the offending
window?  Can you ssh in from another system to kill the process?

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