If you have a laptop or another computer you can ssh into the system and kill the offending processes that way, or at least do a clean reboot.<br><br>Dagny<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Eric Beversluis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I just had gnome 3 freeze up on me when using gedit (trying to drag an<br>
open file to a new window). I couldn't figure any way to shut down gedit<br>
and unfreeze the system short of a forced shutdown of the entire box.<br>
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What else can one do in this case?<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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