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boler 02-23-2011 02:26 AM

Slackware Crash Behaviour
 
Hi,

I was working on my desktop last night when my Slackbox froze up. Actually I was reading a pdf file in Okular when it happened.

My question is a general one in that every time this happens my mouse and cursor movement functionality still works fine i.e., if I move my mouse around then the cursor moves on the screen as normal. However, the mouse buttons and keyboard loose all their power. Even Ctrl+ALT+F1 won't take me back to the shell and I am forced to reboot at the main switch.

So if the computer can still operate the mouse position (in a crashed state) why then cannot it (be made to) operate any other emergency kill process functions?

Regards, Tim

(P.S. I know that it was caused by KDE's buggy code but KDE 4.4.3 is still part of Slackware 13.1 hence the thread title.)

bgeddy 02-23-2011 04:25 AM

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So if the computer can still operate the mouse position (in a crashed state) why then cannot it (be made to) operate any other emergency kill process functions?
Quite possibly there may be a crash/loop in keyboard handling code but the mouse handler code still works - as seems to happen here.

Have you tried ctrl+alt+backspace to kill X? If this fails then try the "raising elephants" trick - i.e. hold down Ctr+printscreen and hit (slowly in turn) R,E,I,S,U,B - wait a little while for a result after each alpha key is hit. This nearly always gets through and will shut down stuff in a more orderly manner than just powering off or rebooting.

Edit: Hope you see this edit - I got the above a bit wrong it's Alt+printscreen and hit (slowly in turn) R,E,I,S,U,B - sorry - I don't often have to do this!

boler 02-23-2011 05:21 AM

ok thanks bgeddy. I haven't tried that one. I'll write it down and see if it works next time.

allend 02-23-2011 07:08 AM

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I know that it was caused by KDE's buggy code
Do not be too hasty in blaming KDE. This sort of instability may actually be due to the graphics driver.


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