Am 03.07.2013 23:00, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
On 03.07.2013 22:32, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 03.07.2013 22:19, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
On 03.07.2013 20:30, Richard Vickery wrote:
Is there a way to reboot the computer while its stuck on "Starting GNOME Desktop Manager"?
Yes, press the power button for a few seconds and then release it. This should work on most PCs and notebooks
this is a *hard power off* - gratulations....
So, what? Question was about rebooting without specifying type of reboot.
so what - for your tip pull the power supply would be quicker and the same
I've never had any problems when hard rebooting Linux, especially just after power on
maybe luck maybe you simply not know which not so important files got truncated
a hard power off is nothing anyone should recommend to another person if he is not the one solving problems which may appear after that *without a big fat warning*
if the kernel is still alive and acpid running press the power button *short* and wait a while - the system will do a *clean powerdown* in 99.9% of all cases
This might work or not in this particular situation but we know nothing about kernel condition.
since this is mostly a GNOME problem pretty sure acpid works
if such problems are happening repeatly configure sysrq http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
and last but not least CTRL+ALT+F3 may offer a text terminal with a working login however, a hard power off is the very last resort and not recommendable