On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14-Mar-12 19:41, ZHANG, Le wrote: >> >> >> > So my question is: Can I somehow deliberately trigger >> > "kernel panic" (or "kernel oops")? >> >> For panic, echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger > > > After I issued the above mentioned command, my system > instantly "froze to death". Nothing changed on screen, > no "kernel panic" or "Ooops" screen. Just frozen... > > No reaction to keyboard or mouse. No auto-reboot either. > The only thing I could do is to press "Reset". Not exactly > what I have been expecting...
Were you running under X? The panic would have killed X, which wouldn't have released control over the video hardware. There's a SysRq sequence to get around this, but I don't remember it. -- :wq
