On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 05:15, kim marshall wrote: > Twice now I have managed to Lock my computer up hard. Very Hard. Keyboard is >locked. Both the Caps Lock and Scroll > Lock lights are flashing continuously The mouse is dead and I cannot function key >or escape to another log in. The > only alternative that I have found is a computer reset. As I say this has happen >twice. I think the same scenario > caused both except the first occurred almost two nights ago when I was very focused >on a completely different and > unrelated problem with a different computer (Windows actually). The second just >occurred and I remember it with very > good detail. > > I was trying to copy a file from my hard drive (FAT32 C drive partition) to a FAT >floppy so that I could solve this > problem on the WIN machine. What I did was to drag the file in Konqueror from the >files list on the right onto the > /mnt/floppy icon in the directory tree at the left. In both cases the copy >procedure started as though it was going to > function correctly and then soon after the copy progress dialogue popped up the >system Hung Hard!! Of course Linux > fsked the drives on reboot and I do not think there is any real damage. Thank God >for a journalizing filling system.
Exactly the same thing happened to me. I was also copying a file from hard drive to floppy with Konqueror. After the crash, it seemed to work fine using cp in a console... I think the flashing keyboard lights indicates a kernel crash... can anybody confirm? David Sansome
