Machine on a deadlock

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 13:08 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I have a machine running Fedora 19, which is experiecning a deadlock.
> >>
> >> Is it actually deadlocked or do you just mean it's frozen? Can you reach
> >> it via an ssh session? Does it respond to pings?
> >
> > Thanks, Patrick . Perhaps, the correct word is "frozen". The machine
> > does not accept ssh sessions, because I prevented that with the
> > firewall. And yes, it responds to pings.
> 
> Is it safe to use the physical power button to shutdown the machine?

I've done it quite a few times with no problems. Consider this: if you
can't hit Reset, how is your machine going to react to a power failure?

poc