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supanewbie
03-26-2001, 11:47 AM
Ok...I did a search but couldn't come up with anything, so here goes: How do I shut down linux (I'm running RH7) when it locks up? I'm currently reinstalling (again) because I had a lock up when i clicked on the netscape icon...gnome just froze. Nothing did anything...just locked up. I didn't know what else to do so I hit the reset button and when it rebooted it failed and said something about a magic number (i searched for that and did all kinds of stuff that people have recommended, to no avail). I'm sorry if this seems like a stupid question but I'm brand new to linux (just installed for the first time yesterday). I'd really appreciate any help. Also, if you could point me to another linux newbie site (i've spent the last week here reading everything i can find about anything) Don't worry, this one will forever be my newbie home (once i get on the net with linux it will be my homepage). Thanks!!
If X freezes hit ctrl+alt+backspace and that should take you to the command line and shut down X
supanewbie
03-26-2001, 12:28 PM
PHATTY!! thanks!
supanewbie
03-26-2001, 02:04 PM
OK...F**CK!!!! this is about the tenth time i've installed RH 7...i was at the console (i hadn't started x yet) and trying to figure out my nic (ifconfig, etc..) i decided to go into x (i'm using gnome) and it showed the little screen where the modules? load. it did the first one and got to the second one (sound, no soundcard in that box) and it froze. i tried ctl-alt-backspace and it did nothing. i let it sit there for a minute or two, hoping it would do something, but there was no disk activity. i've been able to run gnome succesfully before but now it's not doing anything right (locked up on netscape before). without any other recourse i had to push the reset button and now i have the same probs as before (magic whatever). Should I give up on RH and try mandrake instead? i'm tired of reinstalling RH all the time (it takes about an hour and a half, i guess because it doesn't recognize my ram, so it's using swap space). <--yes i have read the posts regarding that prob and was able to succesfully fix that, but not during install. Please help!!
FoBoT
03-26-2001, 02:06 PM
any chance you have some hardware problems?
not to say that rh/linux isn't messed up, but could it be a hardware problem? have you run other stuff on this box before? or is this a new box?
supanewbie
03-26-2001, 02:06 PM
oh...when i was working with my nic i did not edit any files, just running the little commands that check to see if it's working.
supanewbie
03-26-2001, 02:10 PM
i've run windoze on it for a while...
abit bh6
celeron 400
128M
maxtor 30 gig
WD 13 gig (not plugged in at the moment)
40 cd rom
cd-rw (not plugged in at the moment)
NC100 nic (network everywhere, linksys, whatever)
CL TNT2 ultra
no soundcard at the moment
linuxluis
03-27-2001, 10:14 PM
Ok try this dont reinstall linux once again. try to switch the cards around like your vidoe card your nic card around. i ran into the same problem that fixed it for me. if not i could be something you loaded while you were setting up your box. when you loaded it did you take out the sound card options
tux