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?
Beowulf

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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.


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"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

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.)


--
If you have walked all these days with closed ears and
mind asleep, wake up now! -- Gandalf

On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:04:18 -0600, Beowulf wrote:

> 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

That's Alt-F7, the Ctrl is not needed. Also Alt-F1 through F6 will give
you each of the command line terminals, once you are in one of them.

> brings one back to one's original GUI after doing Ctrl-Alt-F2,
> Ctrl-Alt-F3, etc.)

--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."

On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:45:32 -0600, imotgm wrote:

> That's Alt-F7, the Ctrl is not needed.

Either seems to work on my system.

On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:34:16 -0600, Beowulf wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:45:32 -0600, imotgm wrote:
>
>> That's Alt-F7, the Ctrl is not needed.
>
> Either seems to work on my system.

Which tells you that the Ctrl is superfluous.

--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:23:13 -0600, imotgm wrote:
> Which tells you that the Ctrl is superfluous.

hey but it is fun to have Control :)

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If you have walked all these days with closed ears and
mind asleep, wake up now! -- Gandalf

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:22:49 -0600, Beowulf wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:23:13 -0600, imotgm wrote:
>> Which tells you that the Ctrl is superfluous.
>
> hey but it is fun to have Control :)

I think it's time for you to take a break, and get some sunshine. This
Linux thing is trying to swallow you up, like quicksand. ;)

--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."

> I think it's time for you to take a break, and get some sunshine. This
> Linux thing is trying to swallow you up, like quicksand. ;)

That would be nice, but here in northern Minnesota just lousy gray skies,
NO snow (can't even go snowshoeing or do winter photography), 35F temp,
the most unusual winter. Not much to do but linux, play some computer
games (also I just noticed Unreal Tournament 2007 is to be released March
31 2007)

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:12:58 -0600, Beowulf wrote:

>> I think it's time for you to take a break, and get some sunshine. This
>> Linux thing is trying to swallow you up, like quicksand. ;)
>
> That would be nice, but here in northern Minnesota just lousy gray skies,
> NO snow (can't even go snowshoeing or do winter photography), 35F temp,
> the most unusual winter. Not much to do but linux, play some computer
> games (also I just noticed Unreal Tournament 2007 is to be released March
> 31 2007)

Don't do games myself. Northern Illinois, and 47F. The grand-kids aren't
sure what to do with the Christmas snow boards and sleds. I went out and
plugged a flat tire that picked up a nail, in my tee-shirt. Came back in
sweating my ass off. This ain't January, as I know it. :P

I just got back from helping a friend build an Athlon 64 computer, and
installing SUSE 10.2 on it. Somebody in the family put his brand new
Linksys router, in the unopened box, in a box of stuff they took to
Goodwill. He is NOT happy about that. Big time bummer.

Tomorrow, I get to start his Linux training, so I'm stuck in the quicksand
too. :)

--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."

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

Could not do, everything frozen. UT game was running full screen, perhaps
I will try it windowed. However, I did drop it from 32 bit to 16 bit video
game mode and it has not frozen up since, before in 32 bit mode it was
freeing once a game on cue.


> 2. SSH into the box from another and do the same as above.

I will try that just as a learning experience.