On 5/31/21 12:36 PM, Antony Stone wrote: > On Monday 31 May 2021 at 21:25:18, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
>> I couldn't even switch to a terminal where I could kill Firefox. I finally
>> had to simply power down the system. (How I hate doing that!)
> Hint for the future - if you have sshd running on this machine, you may well
> find you can log in to it from elsewhere and tell it to "reboot". That will at
> least shut processes down cleanly (migth take a while) and unmount your file
> systems cleanly.
Thanks for the tip. I have used sftp from my Android phone for
transferring files to and from the phone, but had not tried ssh
directly. I have installed an ssh app and it seems to work nicely. I
hope I will not actually need to use it.