Lanny Marcus wrote: ... > Thanks for that information. It happened again, awhile ago. I was > using Gmail online, with Firefox, as I'm now doing, and the mouse just > became inactive. I had to kill the power again, which is a horribly > inelegant way to get out of that. Lanny, Have you tried to ssh in from another system? Sometimes that works even with the keyboard/mouse totally frozen. If so you could "telinit 3 / telinit 5" or reboot with a bit more elegance. Phil