> Some times the the file manager (Nautilus) does not show up. > if I want to reboot the PC at that point for some reason, the > Actions->logout > won't respond. Terminal does not open for a while .... instead of waiting > for all this > to happen I was playing with pushing the power button. I have done this > several > times. At one time I see this corruption. I am using this in a lab > environment. > > I guess my question is why pushing power button causes this random writes > ?? > This is so happened that some of the kernel header files are corrupted > (some > junk characters in a header file) and could not compile a kernel module > ... > > I know I need to do proper shutdown. > > What if this happens? How do I protect this ... ? > > Thanks > /Murali > You might want to try Ctrl - Alt - Backspace. That will kill your X-windows and drop you out to a command line. You can then do a "shutdown -r now" as root to reboot or just a Ctrl - Alt - Del. Gerry
