New(er) Kernel

Fri Dec 13 00:09:47 UTC 2013

On 12 December 2013 22:51, Pete Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com> wrote:
> By lock-up I mean complete unresponsiveness from keyboard / mouse on GUI,
> cannot drop to shell (ctrl-alt F1-F6) only solution is hard reboot (hold
> down power button) !!

Have you tried the REISUB trick?

http://kember.net/articles/reisub-the-gentle-linux-restart/

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