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
> Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 14:56:01 +0100 (BST)
> From: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: redhat mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: How to crash linux in pine
> 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.
>
>
> Anthony
>
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> http://www.achc.demon.co.uk
>
>
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