On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:05:13AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <[email protected]>, Liviu > Andronic wrote: > >On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I can't really help you with your problem, but a "hard" shutdown is > >> almost never necessary. You can send various low-level commands to your > >> kernel using the "SysRq" Key [1], which will allow you to reboot a > >> computer without corrupting the filesystem. > > > >Nope, this didn't work on my panic-ed kernel. > > Yes, the "Magic" SysRq is handled entirely[1] within the kernel, but if you > don't have a kernel nothing will work. A frozen userland (including X) can > be recovered (or at least saved) via Alt+SysRq key combinations.
some times you have to grab the keyboard back from X i think it is the
RAW option
>
> >From my experience with
> >Gentoo, kernels can quite often hang and not respond to SysRq.
>
> They shouldn't. If your kernel regularly panics or hangs, it is probably a
> bug and should be reported. It could be bad HW though.
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