Konqueror crash (Mandrake 8)

[James McFall]

System freeze forced me to use the evil reset button (any way under Linux to avoid this?) and now Konqueror (under KDE) crashes when I try to start it - I get a "SIGABRT". HOWEVER, I can start it as root with no problems. Feels like a bad config file but I'm not sure what to look for. Any ideas? Thanks.

[irlandes]

Originally posted by James McFall:
<STRONG>System freeze forced me to use the evil reset button (any way under Linux to avoid this?) </STRONG>

Sure is. Chris, of the koffice team, told me about it just this week. I bet it's one of the best kept open secrets in linux??

If your keyboard seems to be frozen up, before you hit the reset or power button, do this:

Hold down ALT, then at the same time hold down SYSRQ key, (sometimes also marked PrtScr0. Leave them both down until you finish the following sequence:

s then u then b to reboot.

Hit these keys one at a time while holding down ALT+SYSRQ, is what I am trying to tell you. This synchs the files, remounts them as read only (I think) and boots. If you want shutoff, use o instead of b.

There is information on most distros in a file called sysrq.txt. Do a find command to see if it's installed. If not, check kernel-doc on your installation CD's, and see if it is listed there.

Hope this helps.

[James McFall]

Printed and filed for future use. Thanks!