On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Gordon McLellan <gordonthree at gmail.com> wrote: > You might want to look at this, for future reference: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Gordon: Thank you! I bookmarked that URL and I will read it, slowly. Hoping not to need to kill the power to get out of that situation, the next time it happens. Lanny