Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Daniel B. Thurman writes:
I cannot even access the F1 or anything to see what is going on.
What can I do at this point except perhaps to do a forced system
reboot? Isn't there something I can do before attempting such a
drastic move?
If you can't even move the cursor and your entire desktop is frozen,
either your entire kernel, or X.org, has crashed. This has nothing to do
with the package manager.
The only thing you can do is reboot.
That is if the kernel crashed.
If x.org or something else is the problem:
- when you said F1 did you mean ctrl-alt-F1, F2 etc ?
- ctrl-alt-backspace should kill the current x session, causing the
logon screen to be shown
- it might still be accessible from the network over ssh; sometimes
using vnc might allow you to find what is going on, or at least capture
screen shots, run top, check disk space, check external connectivity.
- next time you run package manager - start it from a terminal window,
in case it is providing some sort of error messages.
DaveT.
