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What do you mean by "a hung system"?
Authored by: clh on Dec 30, '08 09:37:20PM
I'm not clear about what condition you're talking about. A hung process should not normally prevent you from rebooting, or bringing up the Force Quit dialog. A hung system, though... what does that look like? Can you not switch between running apps using Command+Tab, or by clicking on windows? Can you not launch from the Dock? I'm not sure I've ever seen OS X in a state of system-wide unresponsiveness where you would still be able to launch & use Terminal on the same machine. I've only seen kernel panics (and not many of them, thankfully).

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What do you mean by "a hung system"?
Authored by: gsperling on Dec 31, '08 12:29:42AM

Why, one with really long assets, don't you know? =)



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Hung GUI
Authored by: gshenaut on Dec 31, '08 12:04:15PM

A number of times I've seen a frozen GUI, but in that case, Terminal won't run either. The best solution is the remote login via ssh (the above suggestion to use touchterm on the iphone is great).

Greg Shenaut



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