Re: Restarting Suse 9.0

From: Martin Blume (mblume_at_socha.net)
Date: 01/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:52:15 +0100

"cybose" <cybose@yahoo.com> schrieb
> Guess I did it again :(.
> Suse froze up on me and I have no clue how to restart it.
What app did you start to make it freeze?
Can you detect a pattern?

> It does not let me open a Konsole window or open any
> applications for that matter.
In KDE ?

> However Ctrl+Alt+F1 and Ctrl+Alt+F7
> toggles between the KDE desktop and a fullscreen
> console window. I tried a few commands there
> reboot is an unrecognized command
> shutdown is an unrecognized command
> kill -s 9 does not work
It should have offered you a login prompt first. You'd have to
login as root to do reboot or shutdown.

You might want to look at /var/log/messages before doing the
shutdown and hunt for suspicious messages (hint: do a
less /var/log/messages, then press G (SHIFT-g) to go the end).

>
> Is there a hot key to safely restart/shutdown linux. If I pull
> the plug, its going to corrupt the file system and would require
> me to reformat and recreate the disks again i think(I have been
> there once!).
You may configure in YaST somewhere that Ctrl-Alt-Del does a
reboot.

HTH
Martin