On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:35:36PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I don't know what an SSH daemon is, so my bet is that there is not one > running. Not unless it was installed with a default Xubuntu > installation. Also, Gnome is not installed, except for those parts > required by Xfce, which is the only desktop installed.
An [SSH][1] daemon is the server-side software that allows you to remotely login via an SSH client. You end up with a shell (i.e., command line) session on the remote machine, over an encrypted connection. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell If it's a stock Ubuntu install, it should have an SSH daemon running. Try this from a shell on your laptop: ssh username@remote_hostname You will be asked for your password on the remote host. Once you're logged in, you can attempt to restart the display manager. The Internet tells me that the various Ubuntus use [LightDM][2] by default, so try: sudo service lightdm restart [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightDM The "sudo" command will ask for your password. If the restart goes according to plan, the frozen display should go dark briefly, and the graphical login screen should reappear. If it doesn't, and you don't stand to lose any unsaved work, etc., it's probably simplest to reboot. -- Paul _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
