From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jf9D6-0005iI-KQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:41:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 514F4E07E8; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D26AE07E8 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:41:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so567129ugf.49 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.24.18 with SMTP id b18mr2952716ugj.65.1206690070423; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.100.15 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6142e6140803280041x2ba3250ex41712af106320cc5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:41:10 +0100 From: "Daniel Pielmeier" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to? In-Reply-To: <47EC9F50.5070503@bellsouth.net> 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-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47EC9F50.5070503@bellsouth.net> X-Archives-Salt: 42e328dc-28f4-4233-b34f-992899b9ab02 X-Archives-Hash: ff3e6a33d491952a0fc817dab1c54828 2008/3/28, Dale : > Hi, > > I had a problem the other day where I needed to shutdown, like in a real > hurry. My power supply was packed up and checking out without paying > the bill. I was in KDE and just selected logout then shutdown from the > menu. Is there a faster way to shutdown so that at least the file > system is clean? Some fancy keystroke pattern or a short command > maybe? I run foldingathome and that pesky "waiting 17 seconds" thing > was torture. I need it to bypass that little "feature" as well. > > I hope I never run into this again but just in case I would like a > pointer. It did make it to the point where it said it was unmounting > file systems but one partition must have been mounted since it was well, > pissed, about not being unmounted cleanly. ;-) Thank goodness for > reiserfs coming to the rescue. After putting in a new P/S all is well > again. You can try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list