Johnathon Tinsley wrote: >> If you get in a situation where nowt works and X is "stuck", if the >> keyboard still works you can always open a shell (CTL+ALT+F1to6) and >> kill the processes manually. >> >> If the keyboard doesn't work then you would be fskced anyway. Hard reset >> required (or ssh into your box from another). >> >> > > Magic SysRq to the rescue! > > You can use ALT-GR + SysRq + K to kill off X, similar (but different to > CRTL-ALT-BACKSPACE) > > Alternatively, you can use the good old sequence, Raising Elephants Is > So Utterly Boring, to reboot your machine. > (R = take control of the keyboard, E = Terminate all processes > gracefully, I = Killing any that don't terminate nicely, S = flush data > to disk (no files left unwritten in RAM), U = Remount all filesystems > readonly, B = reboot) > > Not all systems will honour the "B" command, but once you've got to that > stage it's perfectly safe to power off, and power back on again. Using > that sequence on a confused server has saved me half an hour of > repairing MySQL tables before now ;) > > Johnathon > > That's handy, I'll have to make a note of that somewhere, usually when I need something like that I can never remember what the keystrokes are and well, the machine is usually in a state where I can't get a browser to open :-)
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