Re: Crashed!

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:49:26PM -0700, Glenn Williams wrote:
> Hi, Group:
> 
> This has never happened to me before - but moments ago, in RH 7, I was
> downloading a file called UltraEdit that someone previewed in an e-mail
> message today, and suddenly I noticed that the hard drive was running
> flat out, and the mouse grew so sluggish as to be useless.  The
> download was reported stalled by Netscape.
> 
> I tried <ctrl-alt-bkspc> to return to the text console; that failed. 
> Then I tried <ctrl-alt-del> and that failed as well.  I could not think
> of anything else to try, so I pressed the reset button.
> 
> Surely there's a more graceful way to bail out of a crashed Linux OS
> than the crude but time-honored windoze method of hitting the BIG
> SWITCH.  ???
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Glenn
> 
You wand <ctl><alt>-F1 which will take you to another console where you can
kill netscape any other program, etc. and go back to gnome with <ctl><alt> F7
Or you could reboot with <ctl>alt>-<del>
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