Workspaces Queston *answered*

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 18:14, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> I tried to do an ssh from another system to no avail. How can I find
> which of the tasks was the culprit? Since there are a total of 10-12
> open tabs in the 4 instances of firefox running. A power off and restart
> was the only way I could get passed the problem.

The easiest way to do a clean shutdown on a locked-up Linux box that
is disk thrashing is to do 1 of 2 things:

[1]

Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a text console.
Wait for it to appear -- it can take many minutes if the machine is
thrashing hard.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del 7 times within a second.

[2]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/6qphtj/psa_use_reisub_when_ubuntu_stops_responding/

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Browser lockups are 1 reason I use 2 browsers. Firefox (well,
Waterfox) for normal browsing, Chrome for very Javascript-intensive
stuff.

If one dies, the other is usually fine.

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