I am currently running Red Hat 7.1 on a old Dell CPi R400GT, Pentium II. Ocassionally the computer will hang and freeze up. I can still move the mouse, but nothing responds. The light for the HDD is not lit, or blinking. Coming from a DOS/ Windows background the Alt+Ctrl+Del function was always handy to check what was not responding, and end task it. Here is my question:

Does Linux offer a command such as Alt+Ctrl+Del to end or view a process? I have tried Ctrl + C to kill all, and it continues to freeze.

Any help or suggestions with this would be greatly appreciated.

Badger

As long as the system is responsive (accepting keyboard input), you can try a couple things...

[ctrl]+[alt]+[f1] will move you to a terminal login. You can then login and kill any processes you need to.

[ctrl]+[alt]+[backspace] will kill the X server. If you boot straight to X, it will re-spawn X and bring you back to the graphical login. If you boot to the terminal, then it will drop you back to your login, and you can try restarting X with startx.

Ranger_Nemo, thanks for the reply. That key combo worked great.