Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Mark Knecht writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Right, I was a little too enthusiastic here.
>
>> I've seen you guys talk about this and I've never had to use it.
>
> Oh. I used it very often.
>
>> 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.. ?
>
> It's Alt-SysRq-R, Alt-SysRq-E, and so on. With little pauses between, to
> give the action some time to work. Like, wait a little with the U (Unmount)
> after the S (Sync). Or after the E (kill all processes) in order to give the
> processes some time to save data, so the I (kill -9 all processes) does not
> interrupt this.
>
>        Wonko
>
>

thanks Wonko!