Arthur Pemberton wrote:
I'm confused here. He was attempting to restart the entire machine, and instead restarted the X server, and this is considered a significant problem?
Yes because control alt del calls up the task manager in Windows in recent versions and even initiating a reboot, you get a prompt for confirmation and applications get time to save data.
That said... when did Ctrl+Alt+Delete stop rebooting? I just tried it and was surprised to see a dialog box instead. I remember using that key combo way back since RH 7.3, I just rarely needed it.
I don't recall the specifics but it has been that way for a long time now.
Rahul