debian lenny sudden restart

[Shimon Panfil]

Quoting Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>:

> 1. Are you aware of ways to switch to a different virtual console
> and/or cause the X server to restart - both possible from the
> keyboard?
> 2. There are ways to "checkpoint" long running processes to disk so
> they won't get lost on process or system crash.
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Yes, I am aware of ways to make long calculations, my mistake was to  
relay too much on debian stable

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