accessing shell when gnome locks up.

oldman talbotscott at cox.net
Mon Feb 26 15:03:57 UTC 2007


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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. 
> 
Sure!

Use the key combination Ctrl-Alt-F1 which will switch you to a TTY
console (plain text only here and any of the F1-F6 keys will work) now
you can log in as root or as yourself if you prefer but you may need
root privileges if you are going around killing processes.

In case you don't know, you can find the process most easily using the
command:

ps aux|grep $process

substitute the name of the program you think is froze.   You will get
back the PID of the process that you can use to kill it (kill PID).

You can then use the key combination Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return you to the
Xwindows session and see if it is usable again.  If so you'll probably
want to return to the root session and log out (use command exit or Ctrl-D).

Scott
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