[PLUG] Baby killing Linux

[Shahms King]

One thing that might be worth checking is, after power-cycling the
machine, boot into single user mode and check /var/log/messages and
/var/log/XFree86.0.log (you can do it without booting into single user,
but it makes finding the "most recent messages prior to rebooting"
*slightly* more difficult to find) and see if there are any telltale
kernel messages in /var/log/messages or (less likely) '(EE)' lines in
/var/log/XFree86.0.log 

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 13:23, Michael Montagne wrote:
> This is a mystery.  My two year old can sit down and completely lock up
> my Linux box with a few keystrokes.  I'm assured she is only there for a
> minute and this is probably true.  When I got home, there was an xterm
> up with the string "  n   " on it.  Everything else was locked up.  No
> keyboard, no mouse, no sshing in from a different machine, nothing.
> Only option was a reboot.  Not good after my preaching about power,
> reliability, and robustness.
> 
> So, what did she do?  If you had a few seconds to completely disable a
> Linux system how would you do it?  Probably only with keystrokes and
> not lgged in as root.  This has happened several times.
-- 
Shahms King <shahms at shahms.com>