Feodra Core 3 corruption

Gerry Doris gdoris at rogers.com
Wed Jul 13 18:19:29 UTC 2005


> Some times the the file manager (Nautilus) does not show up.
> if I want to reboot the PC at that point for some reason, the
> Actions->logout
> won't respond. Terminal does not open for a while .... instead of waiting
> for all this
> to happen I was playing with pushing the power button. I have done this
> several
> times. At one time I see this corruption. I am using this in a lab
> environment.
>
> I guess my question is why pushing power button causes this random writes
> ??
> This is so happened that some of the kernel header files are corrupted
> (some
> junk characters in a header file) and could not compile a kernel module
> ...
>
> I know I need to do proper shutdown.
>
> What if this happens? How do I protect this ... ?
>
> Thanks
> /Murali
>

You might want to try Ctrl - Alt - Backspace.  That will kill your
X-windows and drop you out to a command line.  You can then do a "shutdown
-r now" as root to reboot or just a Ctrl - Alt - Del.

Gerry




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