[sf-lug] An unpleasant experience

[Michael Paoli]

> From: "Bobbie Sellers" <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] An unpleasant experience
> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 11:40:07 -0700

>      Also I had Badger and DoNotTrack running when the damnable  
> phishing stuff popped up.
>      I see lots of pages where I have to do a temporary disabling of  
> Noscript to get some
> functionality but this is doable while the popup left me with no  
> apparent choice but to reboot
>   then take the so-called alert site out of my restore list on Firefox.
>
>      I lost most of my bookmarks in my text file when the emergency  
> shutdown had to be
> done...

Hmmm..., were you not able to use another virtual console?
E.g. <Control>-<Alt>-<Fn> and then use that other virtual
console from which to then suitably signal problematic PID(s) from
the other browser session?

About the only time I've typically not been able to do that, has
been when X - or video - totally wigs out to such a degree that
I can't even switch to another virtual console ... or can't
see/know enough of what is or may be there to recover things from
there ... in which case I can still often ssh in to take appropriate
actions ... notably signalling relevant PID(s).  Is also at least
sometime possible to do the "flying blind" on another virtual
console ... if one knows enough of state, keystrokes/commands,
can sometimes regain control from there fine without even
usefully seeing any of its output.  But that's not as feasible
if one hasn't yet even determined what PID(s) one needs to
signal.

Fortunately pretty dang rare these days I have X / video
wig out that badly on me ... probably been several years or
more since the last time I had something like that occur.