get back to terminal from "killed app"

[Christofer C. Bell]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 5:00 PM Grizzlly via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 20 December 2024  at 17:55, Liam Proven wrote:
> Re: get back to terminal from "kill (at least in part)
>
> >On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 at 21:03, Grizzlly via ubuntu-users
> ><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I was running do-release-upgrade (22.04>24.04) & watching kaffeine at
> the same
> >> time, (upgrade was going to take 7 hours on slow BB)
> >
> >I don't know "kaffeine" but Google says it's a media player.
>
> Amongst other features, I use VLC as my media player,Kaffeine has a narrow
> but
> specific use on this box
>
> >That was... not a wise move.
>
> Correct, having a seven hour download ahead of me I wanted to do
> "something"
>
> On the wider point of the question, Kaffeine does at random times, block
> all
> (most, see later) system interaction
>
> Alt+Tab does nothing
> Escape does nothing
> Numeric keys do nothing
> Mute does nothing
> Ctrl+Alt+Del does nothing
>
> Kaffeine carries on functioning
>
> But Alt+F1-6 works as intended, (opens a terminal)
>
> Killing Kaffeine only stops it but does not return control
>
> so far my only "out" is open a terminal and shutdown / reboot
>
> any ideas I missed?
>

do-release-upgrade(8) spawns a screen(1) session. If you can somehow login
remotely (I don't know what your computing situation is like), then you may
be able to attach to it and carry on from there. Because all of this is
running in a terminal independent screen(1) session, it should all still
have continued fine. Of course, you're not able to provide any
interactivity that may be requested.

-- 
Chris

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the
Universe." -- Carl Sagan
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