Rather than rebooting or shutting down I recommend killing the process with
the most memory usage - something like alt+ctrl+printscreen+f should get the
job done.
> The magic SysRq key is your friend.
Thanks! I wish I'd known this a long time ago...
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This shows why you should never just force the computer to reboot, even if
it's frozen.
The magic SysRq key is your friend.
I reinstalled. All is well.
Trisquel froze while compiling a program. Since I couldn't get the system to
respond, I powered down. Upon attempting to boot, I get stuck with this
message.
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
ata1.00: ST_FIRST: DRQ=1weith device error, dev_stat 0x7F
ata1.00: cmd
