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 E5E3A1389F5 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2015 07:27:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54769E0A59; Sun, 5 Apr 2015 07:27:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-f45.google.com (mail-qg0-f45.google.com [209.85.192.45]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 037D6E09AF for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2015 07:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qgfi89 with SMTP id i89so2442507qgf.1 for ; Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:27:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1TujY2/g8zddNkqASx906jEiqp0I4LU7wyAv0I2iXeg=; b=XjPAIFRsaCKeDXUl5q8tG9VSliaSUQHRi8sl8Ij092+weYV7ztqFxYqmdQOktkqFsd ZwnN1Ctmi+qIMDyKUJiU/vm/ovRamG2e5gn2EfcPKHPcNOKxgIsZ/kQ5tacxWHCYkQpJ smKXOM36Z/VVdd/aXyS7HVKAwBklZ0LrgDpXE6QeuOcdxJSlD+4Ta4wehVhQJl/rigWg pyYyJ/VyVlQTY7LsYei+6IW218RWjxl4dq8zg7Rpxy4rn4l3yjyhtLqPUwwQqgr2mbXO /NCXFOYlnkCn27ecBdFfuGaWWMS9hs7lNFiIU/wKLksujIiz4pAqQt+CSG3Y8K5oLIsA 1jpw== X-Received: by 10.141.18.146 with SMTP id u140mr11316811qhd.48.1428218839460; Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-116-147.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.116.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id k195sm698713qhk.27.2015.04.05.00.27.18 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:27:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5520E3D5.8010608@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 02:27:17 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, Dale Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user? References: <20150321152656.a82a84b3e8a32c8b68554548@gmail.com> <20150322155852.GA1081@ca.inter.net> <87pp7sqf0b.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <1887274.L0doMiab5F@navi> <87bnj4nk0n.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <20150404233707.5ef93454@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20150404233707.5ef93454@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: eb70aa5d-4c20-4888-96b6-039b05a07dd0 X-Archives-Hash: acc93eb69fafb1eca02974b5eea52f4a Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 14:41:12 +0200, lee wrote: > >>> On Linux now there's the Magic SysRq Key feature for that. >> I always can't remember which keys to press with that, so I have it >> disabled. > BUSIER backwards. > >> And when the keyboard is unresponsive, it won't work. > It usually does. The kernel sees the Magic key events directly, so even > if your X server has crashed, it will still respond to Alt-SysReq. > > I used that on a few puters. I don't recall this ever not working. X may not see the keyboard but the kernel does. It's a life saver at times too. At least you can sync and unmount cleanly. Dale :-) :-)