On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 12:03 -0400, Jim wrote: > Andy Pieters wrote: > > >HI all > > > >I am a huge fan of Linux and Fedora in particular. I just bought another low > >budget pc with windows xp on so I could test how my software (php/xml) looks > >on internet explorer. Again it filled me with joy that I switched to Linux > >almost a year ago, for that windows box BSODed on me within the first fifteen > >minutes! (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, the > >whole os doesn't come crashing down. I was just ripping the cd Europe > >1982-1992 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 the > >play buffer were repeated over and over again. I ejected the cd but that > >didn't save the system. I tried also to ssh in but that wasn't possible > >either. It didn't respond to pusing the poweroff button and the only > >solution was forced power off. > > > >With kind regards > > > > > >Andy > > > > > Andy: I have had this exact same issue happen to me on 3 different > occasions. I have not yet been able to reliably duplicate the problem. > What I have discovered is that it appears that X is not responding to > input. What I did each time was to exit X by pressing and holding down > Control and ALT then pressing the Backspace key. This will tell X to > exit gracefully and so far it has worked for me every time this has > happened. I have my firewall set to block everything so I don't know if > I 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 you > to regain control of the system. > > Jim This has been mentioned here on the list, and the one thing I have seen repeated is the copy-protection theme. The fix has been to avoid copy-protected CDs. Works every time. Any CD that trashes my PC will quickly become part of the land fill after I complain to the vendor and make him take it back and give me a different one. They often don't even play in a standard CD player, which is what triggers the replacement with a different one.
