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Authored by: TigerKR on Sep 10, '04 11:58:14PM

If you want to restart your machine gracefully, as other's have said, try "sudo shutdown -r now"

But if your graphical interface has frozen, and you're still able to ssh (log in via the terminal) from another computer, try "sudo killall loginwindow" which should bring you back to the Mac OS X Login screen.

If you get a kernel panic, or these solutions don't work, I'd try to disconnect all peripherals (kernel panics are almost always caused by hardware), and for some people booting into open firmware, and flashing the parameter settings helps (startup the computer holding down Option-Apple-P-R and then at the prompt, type "reset-nvram" and "reset-all").



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