First Crash? – Maybe Not!
I had my first crash in LINUX or did I?? Everything froze, in the GUI, and any item/icon/button etc I clicked on gave no response whatsoever. I could not even open a shell (or so I thought) to kill off the rogue process, so resigning to defeat (far too easily I hasten to add) I simply rebooted.
Now, I have recently discovered from colleagues that I could have used CTRL+ALT+F1 to get a shell and obviously from here I could have discovered the rogue process and killed it off. Then I could have used CTRL+ALT+F7 to return to the GUI. I was also informed that if that did not work then I could use CTRL+ALT+Backspace to restart XTERM and return to the login screen without the need to reboot, D’oh! and double D’oh!
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