13 Dec
2008
13 Dec
'08
9:56 p.m.
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:50 PM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote: <snip>
Did you try switching to a virtual terminal, e.g. <CTL>-<ALT>-<F1>?
Bill: I tried CTL-ALT-F2 and I tried CTL-ALT-DEL
If the box is not totally frozen
It was 100% frozen.
this should let you work at a command line. Then you might be able to restart the desktop with a telinit 3 and telinit 5 combination, look at log files to see if there are any messages, etc.
That hadn't happened for a long time. The next time it happens, I hope I can remember ALT-SysRq-b to try to reboot the box. Lanny