[plug] CTRL-ALT-DEL

[Mike Holland]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Brian Tombleson wrote:

> > QUESTION:  Is there such a command in Linux when nothing seems to be
> active?

> > SUPP:  I am running a very temperamental AMD at the moment.  It has
> already locked up countless times in Windows - and twice in Linux.

If its a CPU lockup, there is no recovery.

> I'm not a GUI expert, but I'd expect that if you can't do a CTRL-ALT-F1

I was going to say that.

> (through to F6) to get a virtual terminal up then you probably have a
> hardware lockup that your system won't recover from.

Not quite. Sometimes X can totally hang the console. You can try to telnet
in and kill the offending program, or the X server.
  There is a also a joystick daemon that will let you kill X or reboot.


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