Machine on a deadlock

[Doug]

On 09/25/2014 06:00 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
>>> I have a machine running Fedora 19, which is experiecning a deadlock.
>>> What can I do to remedy this situation? I have tried
>>>
>>> CRTL + ALT + F3
>>>
>>> to get a login prompt to issue the reboot command, but the keyboard
>>> seems to be also locked.
>>>
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks, Doug. Unfortunately, that did not work.
> 
> Paul
> 
did you try it in lower case?