Safest way to shut down upon a freeze

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What is the safest way to shut down when the system gets completely frozen? Is there anything we can do outside of pulling the cable?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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Simply open a new tty using Ctrl + Alt + F3, login using your username (name of the home directory) and use shutdown now . This should work

edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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answered Apr 05 '20 at 12:34

Avinash Kumar

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '20 at 12:06

Depends on what you mean "completely frozen". Perhaps only the GUI is frozen while the system is still alive? In this case you could launch a tty, by Ctrl + Alt + F2/3/4/5..

When you've logged in into the tty, run htop and kill the processes that seem to be troublesome.

Safest way to shut down upon a freeze

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