On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:30 pm, rikona wrote: > Hello, > > As I was reading email on another comp, Mandrake 'went to sleep' as it > does after a short time. It has been doing this quite often, without > incident. When I just moved the mouse to 'awaken' MD, all the many > things I had open are gone, including the 'process' bar (or whatever > it's called) at the bottom of the screen. In a root shell, ps lists > essentially nothing. > > What happened? It also occured to me that I don't know how to exit > from this safely, either. :-( What shell command is used to shut down > MD safely after an 'incident'? I'm not sure what happened but you can try hittine ctl-alt-F6 and that should take you to a console screen where you can type "reboot". There is probably a more elegant way to recover, so anyone who knows jump right in here. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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