I was watching an HTML5 video in Chromium, when the monitors suddenly went black. There was no response from keyboard or mouse. I went to the shell by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1. I could see, that Chromium had core dumped. I could also see, that X.Org and Compiz were consuming close to all CPU.
In this situation a reboot is probably the best. However, I was running virtual machines in VirtualBox as well. I would like to close these properly before the reboot. How can I get in contact with VirtualBox, and other programs, in a situation like this? I ended up signaling a hang up to Xorg. This resulted in a fresh login screen. However, all programs seemed to have been lost. The logs were not helpful. I looked in the system log and X.Org log.
In this situation a reboot is probably the best. However, I was running virtual machines in VirtualBox as well. I would like to close these properly before the reboot. How can I get in contact with VirtualBox, and other programs, in a situation like this? I ended up signaling a hang up to Xorg. This resulted in a fresh login screen. However, all programs seemed to have been lost. The logs were not helpful. I looked in the system log and X.Org log.