Re: [Hampshire] Find thrashing my box - is there anything I …

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Author: Dr Adam J Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Find thrashing my box - is there anything I can do other than press "reset"?
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> CTRL-ALT-1


CTRL-ALT-F1 not 1 - my bad...

> CTRL-ALT-7 to get back to the GUI (probably number does sometimes vary)


CTRL-ALT-F7...

Mustn't reply off the cuff late at night...

However I hope Lisi is now sorted. My better half use to suffer a lot from
runaway process on Sarge, since upgrading to Etch it's been a lot less common.
She did complain that Linux crashed as often as Windows, the fact that she
could recover without a reboot wasn't any consolation to her, one runaway
process is a good as a BSOD to her!

--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas
are not only ill prepared for making discoveries, they
also make poor observations.
    -- Claude Bernard