How to Recover an Unresponsive Linux System
Posted on June 23rd, 2007 by nathan
That’s right…sometimes it even happens on Linux. Your GUI freezes…so then what do you do? LXPages has list of Ubuntu tricks, and among them is a list of super handy keyboard shortcuts to get you out of your GUI jam. Here’s just a few:
A) Press “ALT” + “sysreq-key” + “one of the keys” listed below (The sysreq-key is also known as the ‘print screen’ key):
‘r’ - Turns off keyboard raw mode and sets it to XLATE.
‘k’ - Secure Access Key (SAK) Kills all programs on the current virtual console.
‘b’ - Will immediately reboot the system without syncing or unmounting your disks.
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