On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:44:55 -0600, Dan C wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:21:55 -0600, Beowulf wrote:
>
>> My Ubuntu 6.10 system froze up a couple of times yesterday, only when
>> playing Unreal Tournament 2004 (full screen mode). ctrl+alt+backspace had
>> not effect, neither did ctrl+alt+del Totally frozen, had to use reset
>> switch on PC case. Is there anything that can be done in such situations
>> to regain control without a hardware reset as I did?
>
> 1. Try to open a console (Ctrl-Alt-F2), if that works log in and kill the
> game (use ps/top to find the game's PID). Or, do a proper reboot from
> that console.
>
> 2. SSH into the box from another and do the same as above.

Thank you, nice tip-- I will try it on freeze up next time. (For anybody
googling that finds this, I also recently figured out that Ctrl-Alt-F7
brings one back to one's original GUI after doing Ctrl-Alt-F2,
Ctrl-Alt-F3, etc.)


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