Fedora Users — Re: Constructive critisism; room for improvement:

Andy Pieters wrote:

HI all
I am a huge fan of Linux and Fedora in particular. I just bought another lowbudget pc with windows xp on so I could test how my software (php/xml) lookson internet explorer. Again it filled me with joy that I switched to Linuxalmost a year ago, for that windows box BSODed on me within the first fifteenminutes! (actually while trying to uninstall AOL) (BSOD=Blue Screen of Death= Kernel Error)
Still, one thing that windows handles well are bad cd's. When a cd fails, thewhole os doesn't come crashing down. I was just ripping the cd Europe1982-1992 on my Linux box and listening to my collection with amaroK.Suddenly the system got in an endless loop. The 5 seconds of music in theplay buffer were repeated over and over again. I ejected the cd but thatdidn't save the system. I tried also to ssh in but that wasn't possibleeither. It didn't respond to pusing the poweroff button and the onlysolution was forced power off.
With kind regards


Andy

Andy: I have had this exact same issue happen to me on 3 differentoccasions. I have not yet been able to reliably duplicate the problem.What I have discovered is that it appears that X is not responding toinput. What I did each time was to exit X by pressing and holding downControl and ALT then pressing the Backspace key. This will tell X toexit gracefully and so far it has worked for me every time this hashappened. I have my firewall set to block everything so I don't know ifI would have been able to ssh in or not.

Try that if it locks up on you again and see if that at least allows youto regain control of the system.

Jim