what can you do to gain back control when it freezes

[carbon]

i ran a script for the wireless adapter. It was stucked at some IO address error. then the whole system just sit there dead.

In general, if the linux box freezes, what possibly can you do to gain back control? except pushing the power button.

It freaking bothers me when i have to mount an uncleaned filesystem in bootup.
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[cripwalk]

If you had sshd running on that box, you could sometimes be able to ssh in from another box and kill that process.

Or you could always try to see if you can switch to another console (ctl-alt-f2) and if your able to kill the process that way.

Sometimes you dont have a choice and you just have to bite the bullet and hit that power button.

[carbon]

thats what i thought too
atl f2 f3 f4 blah blah , wont work, coz the keyboard cant talk to the machine no more.
sshd died, samba died

i guess i was doing something majorly wrong.
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