On Tuesday 24 October 2006 13:11, Kevin Krammer wrote:
>
> There can be severl differences. For example if a
program which is supposed
> to be shutdown by the log-out hangs, it will not be
correctly restarted at
> log-in, while it will obviously be gone when rebooting.
>
> Or when a driver gets into a state where something
limits its
> functionality. It might still work partially but only a
reboot and thus
> re-initializing the driver might restore its full
potential.
>
> Sometimes the machine needs a full power-off, for
example when hardware
> gets into a state where it can't be properly resetted
by the driver
> anymore.
>
That makes sense.
> Potentially there are five levels of restart:
> - stopping application and restarting it
> - stopping session (logout) and restarting it (login)
> - switching to a lower runlevel (partial system
shutdown) and switching
> back - stopping system and restarting it (reboot)
> - stopping the machine and restarting it (sometimes
even requires a couple
> of seconds without any power)
>
> While this makes it look like rebooting (with optional
power down) will
> always work, it is usually better to solve it at early
steps in this list.
> Not just for convenience (less to restart) but also
because every level
> down the list removes options to interact with the
system, e.g. in runlevel
> 1 you don't have X11 anymore, maybe not even
networking, but still the
> basic shell tools and capability to backup data, etc.
>
I had actually tried every one of those at some point during
the last couple
of days. This box is shut down every night, so it had even
had a complete
re-start. However, since trying various solutions yesterday
I had only tried
restarting X and rebooting. Something must have been too
screwed up for even
a reboot to manage it, until yesterday. It would be nice to
know which
solution made the difference  but we'll
never know now.
Anne
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