Get Out Of Jail Free!

[Octavian Rasnita]

Hi, Thank you, a few questions:

1.) Become root in another console and kill the application

Q: How to become root in another console?

that is giving you trouble. In Octavian's example the application
is emacs, so here's the appropriate command for root to give in
another console:

killall emacs

2.) If all else fails, kill the console session as root from
another console. get a listing of everything running in the
console where you got stuck. If that console is tty1, for
example, you would do:

ps -t tty1

This will print out a list of all the running processes in tty1.
Find the one that says "bash" on the right hand side of the line,
and note the process id, called pid, on the left. Then kill that
pid as follows:

kill -9 pid

where pid is the process id you identified for bash above.

Q: How can I read the screen if emacspeak is not speaking? I want to find
out the PID of the process I should kill.

There are more elegant ways to get out of trouble, but these two
will keep you learning and keep you from wasting time rebooting.

To learn more about these things look at the man pages for
killall, kill, pidof, and ps.

Thanks.

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Janina Sajka, Director
Technology Research and Development
Governmental Relations Group
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

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