On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:42:17AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:37:19PM +1200, cr wrote: > > I just had a sieze in X, and Ctrl-Alt-F? had no effect, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace > > was the only key combination that worked. Is there any setting that will > > restore its function of 'kill X but don't reboot the machine' or any other > > key combination that achieves that? > > Disable rebooting in the bios?
That'll stop the rebooting... however I have an unpleasant suspicion that if the box is so wedged that Ctrl-Alt-F? doesn't work, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace won't work either (I don't intend to try and induce a seizure to verify this :-) ) - ie. the reason Ctrl-Alt-Backspace 'worked' was that the BIOS caught it. It may still be possible to log in remotely and shut down; if not the best workaround until you can find what's causing the seizures might be to use a journalling filesystem like ext3. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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