[PLUG] What to do when it freezes

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Wed Jul 25 17:58:57 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Randy Stapilus <stapilus at ridenbaugh.com> wrote:
> Hadn't tried it with control as well. I could try that too when occasion
> arises.
>
> Randy Stapilus
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>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:23 AM, David Fleck <david.fleck at mchsi.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Randy Stapilus wrote:
>> > Running Mint 7 Gloria ...
>> >
>> > I've read about Alt + SysRq + R E I S U B ... but I haven't been able to
>> > get that to work. (I've seen some reference online to that option being
>> > disabled on Mint.)
>> >
>> > Likewise Alt + F2 then running kill ... but I haven't been able to get as
>> > far as bringing up the terminal.
>>
>> Caveat: never used Mint, don't know it from Adam.  But does Ctrl + Alt +
>> F2 get you a terminal?
>>
>> It might not - if the system is sufficiently wedged, you won't be able to
>> wrest control back from the X server.  But that's what I've used for the
>> past 15 years or so on SuSE and Slackware.
>>
>> --
>> David Fleck
>> david.fleck at mchsi.com
>>

If you have ssh running you can often ssh in even if X is frozen. Just
log in from another machine/phone and kill the offending browser.

Bill



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