switch users --> black screen, no response [in 12.04]

[Liam Proven]

On 17 May 2013 21:06, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> Thanks - a good idea. If I 'shutdown/restart now' will it safely
> disconnect the USB drives and save my current work [say edits] before
> stopping [for each user]?


Yes, it will.

Well, I mean, assuming that it /can./

If not, you could manually unmount the drives, if there is enough
remaining control - but usually `shutdown -r now` works.

This is fairly standard practice for a machine where the GUI has
become unresponsive.

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