On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 10:38:13AM -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
> I did something stupid last night, I pressed ctrl-alt-F2 and totally
> locked up the machine. Actually it may not have been locked up,
> but I was locked out. The monitor went blank and the keyboard
> dead. Even the caps lock led was dead ! The only way I could
> recover was a hardware reset. Why did I do it? I mis-remembered
> something I'd read about switching from X to console.
That should have put you on Console 2. You should have had
a login prompt there. Don't know why you would have just died. From
there <Alt><Fn> or <Cntrl><Alt><Fn> should take you to the various
virtual consoles with F1 being the first console. One of them (typically
F7 if you have 6 virtual consoles set up) should dump you back in X.
> The question? Is there a list of commands that should never be
> issued by uninformed newbies?
Things like...
rm -rf /
:-)
> TIA,
> Mike
Mike
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