Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:05:28 -0600 From: Joshua Fielden <shag@concentric.net> To: Robin Carey <r.carey@dcs.napier.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.1.1 Message-ID: <33C85408.DF56E318@concentric.net> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970711123928.11790G-100000@artemis>
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Robin Carey wrote: > > 2) I can completely shaft my system by typing Alt-F1 (for example) > straight after typing "exit" from an xterm, on a virtual tty running > X-windows. In other words: switching to a text virtual tty, before > X has shutdown after typing "exit" from an xterm. Does that sentence > make sense to you ? It doesn't to me ... *phew* ! > Basically it locks up, and you have to do a hardware reset. > I actually lost my disklabel twice doing that on 2.2.2-061897. :( -- SCSI is *not* magic. There are many technical reasons why it is occasionally necessary to sacrifice a small goat to your SCSI chain. --Joshua Fieldenhelp
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