How to gracefully reboot your Ubuntu/Debian system if all else fails
Here are two ways to first try and kill just the process on your current terminal (thus allowing you to get back into your machine and at least attempt a shutdown -h now command) and if that fails, to bring your machine down in a more graceful manner than a hard shutdown.
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There you are, staring at a crashed Gnome session, CTRL-ALT-BKSPC does nothing. ALT-CTRL-F1 wont bring you to a terminal where you could cd to /etc/init.d and restart gdm. In short, your choices seem to be limited to holding down the power button and chancing file system corruption or nothing.
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