On Sat, 9 May 1998, Mike Bridge wrote:
> I've done that a few times too by accident, and I think I hit either Ctrl-X
> or Ctrl-S. Regardless, I eventually realized that had put it in Scroll-Lock
> mode. If it's the same thing for you, you could try to hit the Scroll-Lock
> key to unlock the keyboard.
>
> -Mike
>
>
> > Preparing to send an email in pine just now I managed to crash linux! some sort
> > of a record I think. I'm not sure how I did it; I started to type in the
> > recipient's name in the To: field but my finger slipped. All the keys locked
> > up. I went to another terminal but I couldn't kill pine even with kill -9. I
> > tried to reboot but got the dreaded "shutdown already running". I tried to
> > change to single user but the whole system froze and in the end I had to press
> > the reset button :-(. Very rum. I don't feel like trying to do it again but I
> > wonder how it happened.
> >
> >
> >
Yes, I'm sure you're right. In fact, now that you mention it I remember I had
the same thing happen several months ago and eventually discovered what it was,
but forgot it in the meantime so got caught again. Thanks for reminding me!
Anthony
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