Frozen System OMG

Sunday, January 03, 2010 19:55 Posted by leosaumure
Windows has freezes and you have CTRL+ALT+Del

Linux has less freezes (none on a good setup) but more ways to get you out of trouble.

CTRL+ALT+BackSpace "kills X" That is it kills the graphical environment and gets you to a command line. Ubuntu have removed this feature (as they think you'll hit 3 keys accidentally(??)) So you have to try other things. CTRL+ALT+F1 or open a terminal and type sudo killall Xorg. (Capital X on Xorg)

The more "Windows way" to do things is open "System Monitor" and terminate the problem process that way.

When the system is totally broken DONT POWER OFF! do this..

REISUB = Restart Even If System Utterly Broken

Press ALT+PrtScrn OR ALT+SysReq (depends on your system) (laptops may need to add the Fn key)

With those buttons held down, use your nose or a friend to type reisub (that is BUSIER backwards).

It shuts down processes, stops hard drives and so on, each letter calling the frozen system to correctly shutdown.

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