graphical commands don't work or if you can't get to an alternative terminal to type in, you know, reboot or any of those other commands that helps you from the command line. If your computer will accept it, you need to find the system request key on your keyboard because that's one of the keys you're going to press. And if your keyboard doesn't have one labeled system request or SysRec or something like that, S-Y-S-R-E-Q, then this isn't going to work for you. However, I believe this is off of memory. So if you want to search Google search for the letters R-E-I-S-U-B. And this is the key combination, as I recall it. Control-Alt-Shift-SystemRequest. And while you hold all those down, very slowly type R-E-I-S-U-B. And each of those letters that you're pressing with system request and those other keys pressed is sending a command directly to the Linux subsystem, your computer subsystem, so that it is going to reboot or shut down. And it bypasses a lot of other stuff like the graphical (30/39)
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