Machine Hangs

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:48:02 +0530, Chaman Singh Verma wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Darius <darius at webz.lt> wrote:
> 
>>  try connect via ssh and restart X :)
>>
>>
>> Chaman Singh Verma wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Garry Burgess
>> <grburgess at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> try cntr-alt-backspace to reset gnome, or else cntrl-alt-F2 to leave
>> gnome into terminal.
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Chaman Singh Verma
>>  <csv610 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>  Hello,
>>
>> For some unknown reasons, I observed that my machine hangs very
>> frequently when using some GUI based
>> 3D party software.
>>
>> Is there any way to kill the jobs. After hanging, I am unable to go to
>> command line using ALT-F2 also. All the time, I have to resort to
>> classical brute force i.e. Reboot the machine.
>>
>> So far, I was under the impression that hanging was the add-on feature
>> of windows OS only.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> csv
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I did both the method, but see no response. Machine remains in the
>> hanging mode.
>>
>> csv
>>
>>
> I didn't understand your solution. Connecting local machine with SSH !
> 

Many people have more then one machine, I for instance have 2 desktops 
and one laptop at home. When one of the machines hanges you can try to 
log into it with ssh from one of the other machines. If that succeeds you 
can go looking which process hangs the machine and kill that, or shutdown 
the machine nicely with "shutdown -h now". If you can't login with ssh 
the only thing you can often do is push the on/off button (and I even had 
a machine where that didn't work, I had to pull the power cord.)

Aart