From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MDDJX-0006zh-2s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:01:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B54BEE01FA; Sun, 7 Jun 2009 08:01:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.pppoe.ca [206.248.154.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9D4E01FA for ; Sun, 7 Jun 2009 08:01:09 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgsFAC0QK0pLd+/c/2dsb2JhbACBT8oZhAoFhgg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,319,1241409600"; d="scan'208";a="39733977" Received: from 75-119-239-220.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([75.119.239.220]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 07 Jun 2009 04:01:08 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:00:51 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 04:00:51 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 halts - how to catch a reason? Message-ID: <20090607080051.GA15173@waltdnes.org> References: <200906050003.31259.a@gaydenko.com> <200906061607.53800.wonko@wonkology.org> <200906061909.56585.a@gaydenko.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200906061909.56585.a@gaydenko.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 1331fbb6-0740-43b7-a771-29ed3dfe9dac X-Archives-Hash: e610161f65193323381aba2744fcf641 On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:09:56PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote > On Saturday 06 June 2009 18:07:53 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Alt-SysRq-R will allow you to switch to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn. > > > > Wonko > > Unfortunately didn't help - still black screen during switching attempts. It may be something as simple as blindly typing the command "reset" (without the quotes) just after doing Ctrl-Alt-Fn. That will only work if you have a command prompt open and waiting. A more heavy-handed method is to use acpid to tell your system that a short tap on the "big power button" kicks you over to text console 1, rather than doing a reboot. Yes, acpid works with desktops, as well as laptops. as root... cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig Power management options (ACPI, APM) ---> [*] Power Management support ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support [*] ACPI Support <*> Button Compile and re-boot into new kernel emerge acpid change the uncommented lines in /etc/acpi/events/default to read event=.* action=chvt 1 execute the commands... /etc/init.d/acpid start (to start acpid now) rc-update add acpid default (to automatically start acpid at future bootups) Notes: - When testing, I suggest executing "sync" as a precaution, just before pressing the "big power button". - PCs also have a smaller power button which is hard-wired to shutdown or re-boot. Do not press that button. - After editing /etc/acpi/events/default run the command /etc/init.d/acpid restart to force acpid to read in the new config -- Walter Dnes