On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:57 pm, der.hans kindly wrote: > Am 30. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Siri Amrit Kaur so: > > I finally got around to rebooting my computer (I hate doing > > that). First, I rebooted into SimplyMepis, where my cdrom > > performed perfectly with KSCD. Then, I rebooted back into > > Slackware, and now it plays fine again! The physical drive is > > fine. What causes a "kernel wedge"??? > > Waiting for something to respond that doesn't respond. Imaging a > toilet stall in a public restroom. Someone goes in and locks the > door, but then never comes back out. That stall then becomes > unavailable even though the others might still get continued use. > > Linux is good, but there are still occasional wedging issues. > Is there a way to figure out what's waiting for a response and clear it without rebooting? Siri Amrit --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss