[PLUG] Strangely frozen desktop

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> writes:

John> On Fri, 17 May 2013 21:07:35 -0700 Paul Mullen <pm at nellump.net>
John> dijo:

>> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 08:25:53PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>> Without a keyboard or a mouse I'm going to have to reboot.
>>  Does the computer have an SSH daemon running?  If so, you could
>> log in remotely and restart the session manager, which should
>> effectively restart X.  I don't recall what session manager Ubuntu
>> uses.  If it's Gnome's display manager, the command would be
>> "service gdm3 restart".  Replace "gdm3" with whatever your system
>> uses.

John> I don't know what an SSH daemon is, so my bet is that there is
John> not one running. 

$ pidof sshd

if you get a bunch of numbers, you have an ssh daemon running.  If you
just get another shell prompt, then you don't.


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