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I was in my terminal, sudo installing apache2, and I clicked out to pause a video real quick. When I clicked back on the terminal I have a white terminal screen with nothing anywhere. It then popped up that the terminal was not responding so I agreed to kill it. My screen and mouse are frozen but I am not sure about the keyboard. What should I do?

coding-queen
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  • perhaps reboot? – Jaromanda X Feb 08 '21 at 08:40
  • "the terminal was not responding so I agreed to kill it" - with whom? In general, it's a bad idea to interrupt an installation process, if system libraries are being updated when you kill the upgrade you may end up with an unbootable system. – Dmitry Grigoryev Feb 08 '21 at 09:00
  • You could try the REISUB-routine, but NOT do the UB (which remounts all drives as readonly and reboots). To do so click ALT+SysRq and then one letter of REIS after the other. With some luck you could then use CRTL+ALT+F1 to get to a terminal prompt and finish the installation there before you reboot. – FelixJN Feb 08 '21 at 10:41
  • Is it possible that clicking out of the terminal to pause a video caused it to freeze? I don't want to make the same mistake. When the screen turned white, a notif popped up stating it was not responding wait or kill it...and that is when I agreed to kill it. I believe my keyboard was also frozen as I tried REISUB and I also tried to get to another backup terminal that I read about in this question ->https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/28256/raspberry-pi-frozen. I also tried removing the mouse and keyboard, but nothing was working. It was as if the entire thing froze. – coding-queen Feb 08 '21 at 19:16
  • After running out of options I unplugged it. I was lucky and when I rebooted it everything was fine. I would love to know what I did to freeze it so I don't make the same mistake. I ended up restarting the process it previously froze on, in the terminal, and it worked like a charm. – coding-queen Feb 08 '21 at 19:20

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