On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 17:51:58 +0000, Voytek wrote: >I've just tried to switch to an X session from command line, and, it seems >the machine locked up solid, the screen has starnge pattern, I can't switch >back to char. mode session, CTRL-BS doesn't help, C-A-D does nothing: > >is there any key combos to try just before I reach for the big red switch ?
I sometimes find that in these cases you can still get remote access to the machine. So you could try to ssh in and shut it down cleanly that way. Of course this assumes you have network, another machine you can use, ssh setup and so forth, but it might help. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug