It's interesting the upgrade suggestion because I have been getting this
issue lately-several times-on f25. I have tried several things, this being
the latest:
Kill -9 -1
Don't run this as root though.

P.s. in retrospect I'd try using sigterm on the first try; kill -15 -1

On Mar 24, 2017 4:20 PM, "Alan" <a...@clueserver.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 11:43 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Killing gnome-shell will not necessarily free the
> > > machine up and make the GUI work as it is a significant component
> > > of
> > > the desktop
> > >
> >
> > It won't. If you unceremoniously kill off gnome-shell, the desktop no
> > longer works at all.
>
> Use top to find the process number of gnome-shell.
>
> kill -1 <pid of gnome-shell>
>
> That will restart it without killing anything actually running.
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