CentOS - Dec 2008 - GNOME + Firefox - Mouse froze - what key combination to revive?

Earlier, I was using GNOME and Firefox and the Mouse died. I had to
kill the power, to get the box going again, because it doesn't have a
reset switch;  which is *not* an elegant way to get going. What key
combination would get me going or to a shell? CentOS 5, fully updated,
32 bit.   TIA!

Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:03:42 -0500:
> What key
> combination would get me going or to a shell?
Probably none. If it doesn't react to CTRL-ALT-DEL it's frozen to death.

Kai

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Lanny,

You might want to look at this, for future reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

-Gordon

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at
gmail.com> wrote:
> Earlier, I was using GNOME and Firefox and the Mouse died. I had to
> kill the power, to get the box going again, because it doesn't have a
> reset switch;  which is *not* an elegant way to get going. What key
> combination would get me going or to a shell? CentOS 5, fully updated,
> 32 bit.   TIA!
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Gordon McLellan <gordonthree at
gmail.com> wrote:
> You might want to look at this, for future reference:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
Gordon: Thank you! I bookmarked that URL and I will read it, slowly.
Hoping not to need to kill the power to get out of that situation, the
next time it happens. Lanny