From: DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What does CTRL-ALT-F1 or CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?
nothing whatsover. I was in 1st or 2nd console, hit CTRL-ALT-F7, got the striped screen, tried going back with CTRL-ALT-F1/CTRL-ALT-F2, but, nothing From: guru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, did you mean CTRL-ALT-BS ? uncertain if that is the key-combo you > tried, cheers yes, sorry, CTRL-ALT-BS, it gave nothing From: Benno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I sometimes find that in these cases you can still get remote access to > the machine. So you could try to ssh in and shut it down cleanly that way. > Of course this assumes you have network, another machine you can use, ssh > setup and so forth, but it might help. From: James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You *might* be able to telnet or ssh into the box assuming it's on a > network and you have a spare machine. By the sounds of it you might be out > of luck ooops, ofcourse, I should've tried that... I guess I was to intent on keyboard combos... though, I think it was locked pretty solid.. From: Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm not sure if it's present in standard distribution kernels, but it may > be worth trying the alt-sysrq key combos. > In a nutshell, there's a handful of keystrokes (all involving holding Alt, > hitting SysRq, then another key) that should always get a response, unless > the kernel itself is locked up tight. At the very least, they'll let you > sync your filesystems and mount them read-only, avoiding a fsck on reboot. thanks, I'll try looking it up, not sure if the machine has source, though, it seems to have that 'sysreq' file: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq 0 # echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq # cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq 1 anyhow, as I do not have physical access to the machine at this time, I best leave it alone at this point, though, I'll try tommorow as it was, I ended reaching for the big red switch, even though, it was neither red nor big. it actually came up pretty quick again, the fsck must've been very quick (it's only a 6GB HD) thanks, everyone, for all the hints Voytek Eymont Checked for Virus's by Asoft Email Scan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
