From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C711138A6C for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 20:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B73DE094A; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 20:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.166.230]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FFA4E092C for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2015 20:44:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [142.196.200.180] ([142.196.200.180:33446] helo=navi.localnet) by cdptpa-oedge01 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id 78/28-31667-BA144255; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:44:27 +0000 From: Fernando Rodriguez To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user? Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 16:43:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4261617.m6DgrlJRg4@navi> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.19.3; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <87vbh7lp6l.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> References: <20150321152656.a82a84b3e8a32c8b68554548@gmail.com> <1592400.RHPDA9Kho3@navi> <87vbh7lp6l.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.118:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 3dec4103-391f-431b-b94d-a92569935cf4 X-Archives-Hash: 05bbdd5ff9106f87770e8cce5e69c2b6 On Tuesday, April 07, 2015 9:21:38 PM lee wrote: > Fernando Rodriguez 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