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Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> I tried Google Earth, liked it, tried again, and, sure enough, it froze |
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> my computer. By "froze" I mean no Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the |
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> X-server, no Ctrl-Alt-F?, no Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot. I had to reboot by |
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> pressing the button in the box. (The bottom of the window said |
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> "Streaming 21%", forever.) |
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> Now, I know googleearth-4_beta is, well, beta. I'm not asking for help |
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> with googleearth, since I assume nobody can give it (Google probably |
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> uses Linux, but prefers to cater to Windows). What I find very |
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> un-linux-like is that a faulty program can leave me with no alternative |
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> but rebooting. I wasn't running the thing as root, of course. Can |
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> somebody |
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> guess what happened? And is there some way to avoid it happening again, |
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> short of not using googleearth? (Some way to limit the ressources the |
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> program can grab?) |
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> |
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Out of topic, but I hope its helpful. |
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Before pressing the "reset" button on your system actually you have |
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several other options. And these are better than reseting because |
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reseting could damage the file system. For this to work one has to |
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recompile his/her kernel like this: |
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make menuconfig >> kernel hacking >> Magic SysRq key [yes] |
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After this pressing {Alt + SysRq + "X"} makes the kernel take an |
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immediate action depending on "X". "X" may be some key from: |
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SysRq : HELP : loglevel0-8 reBoot tErm Full kIll saK showMem Nice |
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powerOff showPc unRaw Sync showTasks Unmount |
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("X" substitutes one of the upper letters, "SysRq" = "PrintScrn" ) |
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So it would be better if you had for example pressed sequentially the |
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combinations for "saK" (if it didnt work) > "tErm" > "kIll" > "Sync" > |
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"Unmount" > "reBoot" |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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