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Just installed Linux Mint 17.3 with KDE on HP probook 6470B. Installation went well, the system said it was restarting - DVD was ejected and system seemed to shut down but it didn't. I tried Ctrl+Alt+Del but got message from root@mint that it was starting emergency keypress handling, then stopping emergency keypress handling, then starting store sound card state, and lastly stopping store sound card state.

I can type on the screen but there's no terminal. How do I recover from this state?

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  • Have you tried powering it down? It'll probably sort itself out when it next boots up. Commented Jun 9, 2016 at 13:03

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For whatever reason Linux Mint sometimes has problems shutting down after boot from CD. (what is even weirder, for me it was happening for apparently 2 different reasons with different things displayed on screen) When it reaches that stage simply click the power button - it's not using the hard drive at this point and can't corrupt any data.

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