accessing shell when gnome locks up.

[Andras Simon]

On 2/26/07, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> Please turn off the HTML mail. Thanks.
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:44:42AM -0800, Larry Kelly wrote:
> >
> >    I  have Fedora6 with VIA chipset onboard video and Gnome.  Many of the
> >    installed  applications will freeze the display screen, and mouse.
> When
> >    this happens is there a Gnome keyboard shortcut that will give me
> access to
> >    a shell prompt, so that I can kill the offending process, or restart X
> >    windows.  Right now, my only option is to turn the power off.
>
> If you have another computer handy, try:
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5405

Or simply set up mgetty so that you can log in through a nullmodem
cable on a serial port. Probably safer, too (if very 90ish).

Andras