I crashed my ubuntu system !
I was reading this article on the df command (basically tells you how much disk space you have left, since I just uploaed 2 gigs of music i was understandibly curious) and it said cntr-shift-f1 or go to the terminal ...
cool... a short cut to the terminal , my fave application.
wrong.
Control-Shift-F1 ends gnome, the desk top , the thing with all the menus and cute icons and stuff that makes controling linux easy ? You wind up in with a black screen asking you for a user id and pass, and when you log in , it's still black , like a terminal you can't turn off.
Reboot !
Ah well.
13 days between reboots. And it was my messing around that required the reboot, not ubuntu.
And we start over.
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Dear Ottowa Boy,
The key-press combo I think you meant is Ctrl-Alt-F1, which takes you to a full screen terminal (a.k.a. tty). To get back to your gnome desktop press Ctrl-Alt-F7. Et voila!
There are in fact six of these ttys corresponding to F1 to F6.
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