How to bring Fedora Core 3 to its knees!

[Paul King]

Haven't tried ssh, but I strongly doubt that ctrl+alt+esc would work, since the 
kernel appears to have gone bonkers. I only knew about the I/O errors in console 
(TTY) mode. When I tried this under X, the system appeared frozen and 
unresponsive. I couldn't even get the mouse to move. In console mode, I couldn't 
even switch consoles.

On 3 May 2006 at 5:45, James Knott spaketh these wourdes:

> 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?
> 
> --
> The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml


--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml