[KLUG Members] Linux Freeze-up

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I thought I remembered that one of the supposed benefits of Linux was
> that you didn't every HAVE TO shut it down, that the "blue screen of
> death" did not apply.
> Yet I just had my machine freeze up (in Mozilla, when opening a pdf
> file), and all I could do was to force a shutdown by powering off. I
> could move or minimize the window or even access the programs panel at
> the bottom of the window.
> Is there some other way to deal with this problem that wouldn't require
> shutting the whole machine down?

Try Crtl-Alt-F1 to access the console.  Probably just killing Mozilla
would restore control to you.
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