There you are, staring at a crashed Gnome session.<\/p>\n
does nothing.<\/p>\n won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bring you to a terminal where you could<\/p>\n In short, your choices seem to be limited to holding down the power button and chancing file system corruption or nothing.<\/p>\n But wait! Here are two ways to first try and kill just the process on your current terminal (thus allowing you to get back into your machine and at least attempt)<\/p>\n and if that fails, to bring your machine down in a more graceful manner than a hard shutdown.<\/p>\n First, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll try and kill all the process on your current terminal. To do this, hold down the following keys –<\/p>\n What the heck is a SysReq key? Look for it on your PrtSc or Print Screen key. (On laptop keyboards, the key may not be labelled with SysReq, but it will likely work anyway.)<\/p>\n The k in this instance stands for Kill.<\/p>\n If that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work for you, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to take drastic action. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll now enter a series of keystrokes that will tell your computer to do some housekeeping before shutting down.<\/p>\n This stands for Raw keyboard mode.<\/p>\n This terminates all processes<\/p>\n Kill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all processes that weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t terminated nicely.<\/p>\n This syncs the disk.<\/p>\n Remounts all filesystems as read only.<\/p>\n Reboots.<\/p>\n That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a heck of a lot better than simply holding down the power button and hoping everything works out okay.<\/p>\n How will you ever remember all those keystrokes? Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring – REISUB You should use this method only if other methods (mentioned above) fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There you are, staring at a crashed Gnome session. CTRL-ALT-BKSPC does nothing. CTRL-ALT-F1 won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bring you to a terminal where you could cd to \/etc\/init.d and restart gdm In short, your choices seem to be limited to holding down the power button and chancing file system corruption or nothing. But wait! There are two more … Continue reading “Gracefully Reboot Ubuntu\/Mint\/Debian (and perhaps others)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linuxtips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portalcreek.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portalcreek.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portalcreek.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portalcreek.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portalcreek.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/portalcreek.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/portalcreek.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portalcreek.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portalcreek.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portalcreek.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CTRL-ALT-BKSPC<\/code><\/p>\nCTRL-ALT-F1<\/code><\/p>\ncd to \/etc\/init.d<\/code>
\nand
\nrestart gdm<\/code><\/p>\n
\nThere are two more options that you may not have known about!<\/p>\nshutdown -h now<\/code><\/p>\nALT + SysReq + k<\/code><\/p>\nALT + SysReq + r<\/code><\/p>\nALT + SysReq + e<\/code><\/p>\nALT + SysReq + i<\/code><\/p>\nALT + SysReq + s<\/code><\/p>\nALT + SysReq + u<\/code><\/p>\nALT + SysReq + b<\/code><\/p>\n
\nThere is a long held mnemonic that makes it a bit easier:<\/p>\n
\nor perhaps it is easier to remember that it spells BUSIER backwards!<\/p>\n