on 7/23/00 10:56 PM, Sarang Lakare wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I installed LM7.1 on a laptop and it was ran fine for a day.. when i was
> shutting down today, it gave KERNEL PANIC on supermount.. and then did fsck
> on the next boot (the laptop has a DVD player and had a data CD inside when
> this happened).. this is the 2nmd time I am getting problems with
> supermount.. why is it in the distribution if its not good and stable???
>
> anyway, here is what is more important.. The laptop is frozen right now and
> I can't even turn the power off!!! its in KDE and this is the worst thing i
> ahve seen.. I keep the power switch pressed and nothign happens.. this
> happened all of a sudden.. any quick ideas will be appreciated.
>
> thanks
> sarang
do you have ethernet? try to log in then kill the xserver
or try this: plug in the power cord, then pull the batery, then pull the
power cord.
do this at your own risk, depending on your hardware you might fry something
but that's how I kill a hung Mac power book and it comes right back up.
Gavin
