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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:09:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0910071309l6802f828id36dd671d410d4f8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091007204856.5ec69208@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:39:45 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
>
>> Others allow to kill processes, sync the filesystem, and such. The
>> combination Alt-SysRq-R-E-I-S-U-B reboots a hanging PC without file
>> system corruption.
>
> Usually! Sometimes a system can be locked up to badly that there's not
> enough resources left to sync the filesystems. Most of the time though
> Alt-SysRq-Reboot-Even-If-System-Utterly-Broken works.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick

I've seen you guys talk about this and I've never had to use it. I'm
curious about the actual key strokes. Is it

Alt-SysRq and then REISUB

or

Alt-SysRq followed by Atl-R, Atl-E, etc.. ?

I assume the first but it would be nice to know if I ever have to use it.

Thanks,
Mark



  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-07 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-06 14:35 [gentoo-user] Fed up with Xorg + hal mess alain.didierjean
2009-10-06 14:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-06 17:22 ` Florian Philipp
2009-10-06 17:38   ` Kevin O'Gorman
2009-10-06 18:10     ` Florian Philipp
2009-10-07  4:34   ` [gentoo-user] Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED] alain.didierjean
2009-10-07  4:48     ` Dale
2009-10-07 16:19       ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-10-07 16:39         ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-07 18:42           ` Dale
2009-10-07 20:32             ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-09  3:13               ` Dale
2009-10-09 19:57                 ` pk
2009-10-09 20:42                   ` Dale
2009-10-09 20:49                     ` Paul Hartman
2009-10-09 21:03                       ` Dale
2009-10-09 21:11                         ` Paul Hartman
2009-10-09 21:45                         ` Frank Steinmetzger
2009-10-10  2:25                           ` Dale
2009-10-09 20:53                 ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-11 21:30                   ` Blank screen after Xorg update (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]) Alex Schuster
2009-10-12  0:17                     ` [gentoo-user] Re: Blank screen after Xorg update walt
2009-10-12 10:41                       ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-12 19:41                         ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-07 19:48           ` [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED] Neil Bothwick
2009-10-07 20:09             ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2009-10-07 20:24               ` Alex Schuster
2009-10-07 20:26                 ` Mark Knecht
2009-10-08 17:32                 ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-08 17:47                   ` Mark Knecht
2009-10-08 18:30                     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-08 18:38                       ` Mark Knecht
2009-10-08 19:17                       ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-08 21:23                         ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-09  2:05                           ` daid kahl
2009-10-09  8:14                             ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-08 18:16                   ` Paul Hartman
2009-10-07 21:01               ` Neil Bothwick
2009-10-07  8:03     ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2009-10-07 17:07       ` bn
2009-10-07 17:09         ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-08  9:19       ` alain.didierjean
2009-10-08 10:58         ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-08 11:17         ` Neil Bothwick

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