smartctl question

[Phil]

On 17/3/23 18:41, Colin Law wrote:

> What happens when you hit ctrl alt f1 when you are able to use that to
> fix and also when you aren't able fo fix it that way?
> What happens when you hit ctrl alt f1 under normal operation?

Thank you for your reply Colin,

More often than not ctl alt f1 (may need to log in here) followed by ctl 
alt f7 restores the laptop to normal operation. If that fails then 
killing xorg sometimes does the job. If that also fails then reboot with 
"sudo shutdown -r now" and finally if that also fails, start again with 
"sudo shutdown -h now".

Sometimes the desktop freezes at the login dialogue box but mostly the 
desktop freezes during normal usage. The user is unsophisticated and 
uses the laptop solely to play card games, kpatience or pysolfc and 
nothing else. The freeze doesn't seem to occur under Windows but isn't 
used because the Windows card games are just too lame to bother with.

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Regards,
Phil