Someone would press the power button and restart or shut down the system. You shouldn’t do this. This can make you a lot of problems. What you can do, is to perform a gentle Linux restart. This is much safer way to restart your frozen Linux.
What key-commands should I press when my Linux box freezes?
If your Linux box freezes and simply won’t yield to any other key-commands, you should definitely try one particular key sequence before a hard reboot. The key sequence is popularly remembered with the mnemonic: Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring Alt+Sys. Rq+Rswitch keyboard to ‘raw’ mode.
What to do when linux mint freezes?
Without warning Linux Mint 18 freezes, the keyboard and mouse become unresponsive. The only thing I can do is press the power button to turn off the computer and start it again. The video drivers are the default Linux Mint 18 drivers.
First thing I’d do is check if I can get a virtual terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1 (or 2,3,4,5,6 can do different things on each one if you want) and log in. Probably just reboot from there. I use ‘ shutdown -r now’, but only because I’ve always used that. ‘reboot’ works just as well iiuc.
Another popular inquiry is “Does Mint freeze more often than XP?”.
Mint freezes fewer times than my XP, but when it does, I don’t know what to do, I just shut down the pc and restart it.
How to deal with a frozen Linux system?
Here are various ways to deal with a frozen Linux system. Kill an unresponsive program with xkill 2. Revive a frozen Linux system with virtual consoles (TTY) 3. When everything else fails, talk with the Kernel using Sys, and req.
Were just reaching for the combination [Ctrl]+ [Alt]+ [Del] (Control Alt Delete). But if you try this in Linux nothing happens (in some distributions, like Ubuntu, you actually get the menu for shutting down your system, but this don’t work when your system hags or freezes ).