Thursday, October 29, 2009

'What do you do with a drunken Linux'

My Ubuntu 9.04 system is locked up.  I was running the Update Manager with another copy of Synaptic open.  I am also running Synergy.

The focus in in the error dialog.  However, I have no mouse and no response from the keyboard.

I have waited about 10 minutes.  Looks like it is time to force a shutdown.

Steve's help:

Found X11 user with who command.  Search ps for tty7 and than kill the user.  That got be back to the X11 login.

Ctrl-Alt-1 through Ctrl-Alt-6 send me to the command line.  Ctrl-Alt-7 send me to X11.  Also Alt-7 will work.


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