Steve Holdoway wrote:
I've just upgraded my old Tosh lappie to Ubuntu HH. After leaving it to it's own devices for a while, it looks like the screensaver ( or some other kind of power management ) has kicked in, and the screen is blank.
And is obstinately staying that way, no matter what I do. If I press the power
button, I'm rewarded by a flash of disk activity, but that's as far as it goes!
Any idea how to bring it back to life, other than holding the power button in
for 5 seconds to crash it???
so acpid is probably still alive.
If you can't ssh in, you can try to raise some skinny elephants. OK,
i'll be explicit.
<alt><SysReq><R> take control of keyboard back from X
<alt><SysReq><S> Sync (flush data to disk)
I like to try an <alt><sys><k> (sends a kill to the current virtual
console), sometime it works.
<alt><sys><e> tErminate (send SIGTERM to all processes),
wait a bit now....
<alt><sys><i> kIll (send SIGKILL to all processes),
<alt><sys><u> Unmount (remount all filesystems read-only)
<alt><sys><b> reBoot
Cheers, Rex
