Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

[Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@outlook.com>]

On Tuesday, April 07, 2015 9:21:38 PM lee wrote:
> Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@outlook.com> writes:
> 
> > On Saturday, April 04, 2015 2:41:12 PM lee wrote:
> >> I always can't remember which keys to press with that, so I have it
> >> disabled.
> >> 
> >> And when the keyboard is unresponsive, it won't work.
> >
> > It will in many cases (probably most). Usually it's xorg that "freezes" 
the 
> > keyboard, in those cases ctrl-alt-sysrq-r followed by ctrl-alt-f1 should 
get 
> > you to the VT where you can restart xorg. I think the kernel needs to be 
> > completely locked with interrupts disabled or locked in a higher priority 
> > interrupt (unlikely) for it not to work or the USB stack totally broken. I 
can 
> > see some of the commands failing or even completely locking the kernel if 
> > something's really messed up.
> 
> How do you remember these keys?  A long time ago, I even printed a list,
> and of course, it got lost before I ever came close to needing it.
> Paper is just too volatile.

Like I said: "Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken" I don't have a way to 
remember the specific keys other than knowing what the shutdown sequence is.



-- 
Fernando Rodriguez