It's interesting the upgrade suggestion because I have been getting this issue lately-several times-on f25. I have tried several things, this being the latest:

Kill -9 -1

Don't run this as root though.

P.s. in retrospect I'd try using sigterm on the first try; kill -15 -1

On Mar 24, 2017 4:20 PM, "Alan" <alan@clueserver.org> wrote:

On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 11:43 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Rick Stevens <ricks@alldigital.com>
> wrote:
> > Killing gnome-shell will not necessarily free the
> > machine up and make the GUI work as it is a significant component
> > of
> > the desktop
> >
>
> It won't. If you unceremoniously kill off gnome-shell, the desktop no
> longer works at all.

Use top to find the process number of gnome-shell.

kill -1 <pid of gnome-shell>

That will restart it without killing anything actually running.
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