Re: My First Linux Crash

From: jeff (jeff_at_invalid.spam)
Date: 06/07/05 

Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:59:07 -0700

Tris Orendorff wrote:
> Well folks, it finally happened. I had a Linux crash last night and I had to reboot the system to recover. At
> least it rebooted just fine without the XP horror-show that would have followed.
>
> I was listening to a CD full of MP3 tunes using Amarok 1.2 and I went to put a CD in my secondary CD-ROM
> drive. Of course I opened the wrong drive and the music stopped in about a second. I closed the drive and
> when the music didn't start I pressed play/pause in Amarok and the system froze. The mouse and keyboard
> were dead, the control panel clock stopped and the network card was down.
>
> All morning I have been trying to recreate the incident but it appears to be a one-time fluke. I suppose, for a
> home computer, one crash every two years is better than a crash every two weeks with XP.
>
>
When "Linux crashed," Did you try opening an alternate console?

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