How to recover from a Frozen System

[rdanner3]

What's funny is that I accidentally used KISUB once, and it worked. Now, if the GUI locks, I just Alt-PrtScr + K and it restarts.

The Wikipedia article is pretty informative and gives functions I had no idea of that could be quite useful, too.

[z06gal]

What's funny is that I accidentally used KISUB once, and it worked. Now, if the GUI locks, I just Alt-PrtScr + K and it restarts.

The Wikipedia article is pretty informative and gives functions I had no idea of that could be quite useful, too.

Mine froze yesterday and the REISUB did nothing. Next time I'll try what you did and see what happens

[j0x]

Well good.
But while completing typing it unmounted all the drives and terminated the tasks but it doesn't restart my computer. I have to manually press the power button to shutdown it.

well in my case i have to press an additional key combos of CTRL+ALT+DELETE to restart Linux Mint

or is their anything we are missing or doing wrong? i like to know, any experts reading please let us know

[Thinker]

Is this recovery? All data will be lost. This is of no use for a common user. "Safe way to restart" is better name for this article.

Presing Alt+Print Scr + K will cause logout by Killing X-server. Although this will not save any data but it is much better and time saving than REISUB

[ElMugroso]

Does it matter upper or lower case in REISUB?

[rdanner3]

Does it matter upper or lower case in REISUB?

No. But you must hold down ALT and PrtScn (also labeled SysReq on some keyboards) throughout. That's why it takes both hands to successfully use.

ALT+PrtScrn+B should shut down the system. Do not recall the letter to restart.

Incidentally, if you happen to be in a terminal while using the magic-key combos, you might well see some statements fly by. Or you might not. It seems to be a tad random, at least in my experience.

[donec]

Why can't this problem be fixed?

I have had this happen on 3 different computers with LM 10, LM 11 and LM 12. Still no fix?

This is almost like the Blue Screen of Death except it doesn't give a code that can't be understood.

[Absolutis]

Great trick. But does it work on mac keyboards, with f14, f15, f16 instead of print screen, scroll lock and pause/break?

[spacer]

D'oh! I pressed ctrl+alt+backspace to see what it did while i was updating my computer. I thought it was gonna open up system monitor or something

[rdanner3]

Is this recovery? All data will be lost. This is of no use for a common user. "Safe way to restart" is better name for this article.

Tend to agree here.

Pressing Alt+Print Scr + K will cause logout by Killing X-server. Although this will not save any data but it is much better and time saving than REISUB

Also note that CTRL-ALT+BKSP will also do that. Have had both fail, though, forcing use of REISUB anyway. (BTW: REISUO will (IIRC) shut the machine off, not restart. Sometimes, if you're just this side of throwing the machine out the window, that might be the wiser choice.)