On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 07:28 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> 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.
I'm pretty sure it's not set up by default (at least it wasn't last time
I looked, which is admittedly a while back). Unfortunately that means
that the first time you think about enabling it is when the system is
frozen ...
poc
I should have said, hold alt+ctrl+print-screen and type r e i s b. It's
tricky
to hold the three keys, but it can be done. I just tried it. Use lower case letters.
--doug