Managing locked up desktops

[Fred Smith]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:36:23AM -0500, Frank wrote:
> In relation to my video problems under 21 Beta....
> 
> is there ANY way to deal with the locked up desktop other
> than hitting the power switch? When it's locked-up, ctrl-alt-F
> keys don't work..ctrl-alt-del doesn't work...and the last resort
> alt-sysreq doesn't work. I am really afraid of totally messing up
> the FS to the point where I am forced to remain in Debian.

CTRL/ALT/BKSP ???

ssh to the box from another computer and do a graceful reboot?


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