Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:51:28 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: But nonetheless, there's still the risk that the KILL has destroyed the application database (sort of - more correctly: that the application and its database was in a non consistent state when it received the signal). Yes, but in

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. April 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: You're not shutting down the system in a clean way. You're not? I thought that's the purpose of the whole thing? It's more like pulling the plug, isn't it? At least none of the shutdown

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: Neil even proposed ALT + SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and unmounted. Which might or might not work. But note that I was also talking about applications being