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Re: [LUG] Reasons to reboot



On Friday 23 April 2004 10:25, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
Rebooting is a pain.  Thanks to the stability of linux and the hibernate
feature on my laptop, I hardly ever have to reboot.

Grr. Wish I could get my laptop to hibernate - it's only recently started 
suspending properly!

However, there are a couple of things that sometimes force me to reboot:

apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.....

*  Network drives that won't unmount ("device is busy").  Trying "mount

What about cycling the daemon at the other end using SSH?

*  Processes that won't die, despite "killall -9" and "kill -9".

Depends how far up the `top` list it appears - I'd be tempted to leave it 
until the next kernel update if it was on this workstation machine. I've 
updated the kernel on this twice in 4 months (a record for me).

Also, my KDE menu items have dissappeared, which is rather annoying.

KDE menu -> Settings -> Menu Updater Tool 
From the console: kappfinder
That should recover menu items for all available (installed) programs.


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