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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> Please explain exactly what you mean by the "terminal
> indicator".
>
> > When this happens, the system will not respond to any
> > command I know, except ctrl+alt+del which, of course,
> > reboots.  Is there any other option in that situation?
>
> ctrl-C works in some situations.  If that doesn't work,
> ctrl-alt-F2 will usually take you to tty2 where you can
> kill the process tying up tty1.


Alt-F2 works if you are in text mode, doesn't it?

I get this problem frequently - please explain again how to kill a 
process.  It was something like kill `pidof` but I forget the rest.

Do I first type 'top' to get teh number of the process, for instance 123, 
and they type
kill `pidof 123`

I have been trying various such things with no success.

Sindi