-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 02:02:23PM +0200, arian wrote: > hi Robin, > > > Everything except the mouse just freezes, and no keyboard combination I > > can think of helps. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+Q, Ctrl+Esc, Super+Esc, Ctrl > > +Alt+Del... There is only one way out, and that's to hard-reboot > > everything (which my harddrive doesn't seem to enjoy). > > try magic sysrequests: > alt-print-k to kill everything on the current terminal (you should get a new > login screen) > alt-print-r to reset the keyboard configuration, followed by switching to > another terminal (ctrl-alt-[f1,f2,...] - you should get a text login screen. > Maybe there are kernel messages of the form: > [ uptime ] message. If there are, you could post a screenshot (you know, one > with a camera) of them.
I'd guess that the USB hangs: then sysrequests won't reach the box anyway, since the keyboard is on the USB (but still, it's worth a try). Another angle of attack would be: is the box reachable via network? (e.g. install openssh-server, log in via ssh). As for the logs... /var/log/syslog resp /var/log/messages (or wherever systemd hides those things these days -- there I'd have to defer to others). regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlb+XrcACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbDzwCffEPj1+IDnLQU4QzhSfMBQr3W NHAAnjEQtJZNRmPnlmM2o+oSwRPFGn89 =5dgi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----