Re: 'init s' froze keyboard forcing cold reboot

2000-09-02 Thread Geordie Birch
THUS SPAKE Miquel van Smoorenburg, on Sep 2: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was experimenting with changing runlevels and exec'd 'telinit' > >from an non-login bash in xterm. When I used a number as an argument > >nothing happened. I used '

Re: 'init s' froze keyboard forcing cold reboot

2000-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was experimenting with changing runlevels and exec'd 'telinit' >from an non-login bash in xterm. When I used a number as an argument >nothing happened. I used 's' and the keyboard froze. You are not supposed to us

'init s' froze keyboard forcing cold reboot

2000-09-02 Thread Geordie Birch
I was experimenting with changing runlevels and exec'd 'telinit' from an non-login bash in xterm. When I used a number as an argument nothing happened. I used 's' and the keyboard froze. Fvwm and everything beneath it still functioned normally; I could start processes from the menu and e