wedged

wedged adj.  1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without
   help.  This is different from having crashed.  If the system has
   crashed, it has become totally non-functioning.  If the system is
   wedged, it is trying to do something but cannot make progress; it
   may be capable of doing a few things, but not be fully operational.
   For example, a process may become wedged if it {deadlock}s with
   another (but not all instances of wedging are deadlocks).  See also
   {gronk}, {locked up}, {hosed}.  2. Often refers to humans
   suffering misconceptions.  "He's totally wedged -- he's convinced
   that he can levitate through meditation."  3. [UNIX] Specifically
   used to describe the state of a TTY left in a losing state by abort
   of a screen-oriented program or one that has messed with the line
   discipline in some obscure way.

   There is some dispute over the origin of this term.  It is usually
   thought to derive from a common description of recto-cranial
   inversion; however, it may actually have originated with older
   `hot-press' printing technology in which physical type elements
   were locked into type frames with wedges driven in by mallets.
   Once this had been done, no changes in the typesetting for that
   page could be made.