[GRLUG] gnome 3 screen freeze

[Eric Beversluis]

On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 10:03 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 10:01 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > I just had gnome 3 freeze up on me when using gedit (trying to drag an
> > open file to a new window). I couldn't figure any way to shut down gedit
> > and unfreeze the system short of a forced shutdown of the entire box.
> > What else can one do in this case? 
> 
> Alt-F2, r<Enter> - didn't work?
Don't know if I tried this. 
> 
> You can go to a console and "killall -9 gnome-shell".  gnome-shell will
> be restarted, your session will resume in the same shell.   Assuming
> your problem is actually gnome-shell and not that something else [like
> the X server] has kicked it.

Everything was frozen--I could not open a console (tried ctrl+enter).
> 
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