{"id":764,"date":"2008-11-11T16:43:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T11:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=764"},"modified":"2008-11-11T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T11:13:49","slug":"fix-unresponsive-or-frozen-linux-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/fix-unresponsive-or-frozen-linux-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Unresponsive or Frozen Linux Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are ever stuck on a Linux system that is completely unresponsive try the following key combination to get access back:<\/p>\n<p><code>Alt PrintScreen r s e i u b.<\/code><\/p>\n<p>When you type the command the system executes the following commands:<\/p>\n<p>    * r &#8211; takes the control of the keyboard back from X.<br \/>\n    * s &#8211; writes the data from the disc cache to the hard disk.<br \/>\n    * e &#8211; sends SIGTERM to all processes except init.<br \/>\n    * i &#8211; sends SIGKILL to all processes except init<br \/>\n    * u &#8211; remounts all the filesystems readonly (basically a measure to help you reboot safely)<br \/>\n    * b &#8211; reboots the system<\/p>\n<p>Please keep in mind that this is a last ditch method, that is to be used only when everything else has failed to get you access to the system. Normally you should be able to switch to a virtual terminal (<ctrl><alt>F1-<ctrl><alt>F6) and kill the offending application.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/tag\/fix-unresponsive-or-frozen-computers-with-keyboard-shortcuts\/\">Fix Unresponsive or Frozen Linux Computers using Shortcuts | MakeUseOf.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/alt><\/ctrl><\/alt><\/ctrl><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are ever stuck on a Linux system that is completely unresponsive try the following key combination to get access back: Alt PrintScreen r s e i u b. When you type the command the system executes the following commands: * r &#8211; takes the control of the keyboard back from X. * s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knowledgebase","category-linuxunix-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}