On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 14:06 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> wrote: > > Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:03:42 -0500: > >> What key > >> combination would get me going or to a shell? > > > > Probably none. If it doesn't react to CTRL-ALT-DEL it's frozen to death. > > Kai: I tried that and I tried CTRL-F2, when it happened, but neither > helped. Lanny Did you try switching to a virtual terminal, e.g. <CTL>-<ALT>-<F1>? If the box is not totally 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. > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill