🚀 go-pugleaf

scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner) writes:

>In article <274@moene.UUCP> toon@moene.uucp (Toon Moene) writes:
>|> Well, actually, running 'shutdown -r now' from a suitably privileged  
>|> account (root :-) will fix it; no need to pull the cord :-}
>|> Or you could try to kill the window server (which most likely is the  
>|> culprit - having grabbed the 'farthest' page in the swapfile).
>I *WISH* I could do any of the above. There's some hole in the kernel
>that when triggered causes your NeXT to literally turn into a black boat
>anchor. You can't enter commands anymore. The NMI monitor will come up but
>won't kill the machine. You quite literally have to pull the power cord.

There is still one more thing to try, before pulling the cord:
Try pressing Ctrl-Alt-<upper-right-key-on-the-num-keypad> 
(or Cmd-Alt-... - I don't remember exactly); this combintation
works well for me, when I run into this situation. Its the reset-sequence
for the NeXT.
Hope this helps sometimes...

Clemens
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