Machine Hangs

[Steve Flynn]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Aart Koelewijn <aart at mtack.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:48:02 +0530, Chaman Singh Verma wrote:

>> I didn't understand your solution. Connecting local machine with SSH !
>>
>
> Many people have more then one machine, I for instance have 2 desktops
> and one laptop at home. When one of the machines hanges you can try to
> log into it with ssh from one of the other machines. If that succeeds you
> can go looking which process hangs the machine and kill that, or shutdown
> the machine nicely with "shutdown -h now". If you can't login with ssh
> the only thing you can often do is push the on/off button (and I even had
> a machine where that didn't work, I had to pull the power cord.)

If you don't have a second machine you can use to poke around in the
locked up box you can try the SysReq Keystrokes to shut down the
machine gracefully.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

-- 
Steve
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