Kenneth Parker wrote: > HP Elitedesk 705 G1. Bullseye XFCE. > > I had a timeout set like usual. Before, I could jiggle the Mouse and press > the Shift Key and it would wake up, but not today. > > Fortunately, I was able to power up a Laptop, and SSH into the Elitedesk, > and tell it to Shutdown cleanly. (But, obviously not everyone has this > option). > > (Until I can figure this out, I changed the Power settings to "Never" turn > off the Monitor). >
This is the sort of thing which is often caused by a machine being told to go to sleep -- i.e. suspend to ram, suspend to disk -- in some way which doesn't let it wake up the video card again. A simple DPMS power off / power on ought to work -- from X, try xset +dpms xset dpms suspend and wait a moment. It should come back when you tap a key, possibly if you wiggle a mouse. If it doesn't, that's valuable info too. Look in logs to see if anything interesting happened before you got to ssh in. -dsr-
