[lug] When to try rebooting Linux

[Chip Atkinson]

One machine and your X session is out to lunch -- you can't get in via the
kbd and there are no other machines to ssh into.


On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Daniel Webb wrote:

> Normally rebooting Linux does not fix a problem, unlike Windows.  I have
> now found three circumstances where rebooting has solved problems with
> Linux:
> 
> 1) SCSI emulation problems (like if you take a CD out of the drive in the
> middle of burning, and kernel freaks out).  There are usually lots of scsi
> error messages dumped either to the console or /var/syslog.
> 
> 2) USB problems.  This has been pretty random, but from what I've read,
> the USB parts of Linux are poorly written.  The situation I have seen
> where rebooting helped was when /var/syslog was full of USB error messages
> (thousands of them).
> 
> 3) PCMCIA wireless networking.  After doing many manipulations with
> iwconfig, sometimes everything will appear to work fine, yet network
> traffic won't go through.  There are no errors seen in /var/syslog.
> 
> Any comments or situations to add?
> 
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