Machine on a deadlock

[Joe Zeff]

On 09/25/2014 02:39 AM, Doug wrote:
>> >
> I don't know if this works in your distro, but in PCLOS, you can hold
> ALT + Print Screen and type R E I S B. If it works, you'll wind up in
> a run-level  and you can type  start x and be back to the system.

This is the Magic Sysrq Key, 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key and it's available in 
Fedora, as in AFAIK all distros.  Please read the section on configuring 
it, as I'm not sure if it's set up by default.