On Thursday 15 Mar 2012 17:02:15 Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Jarry <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 14-Mar-12 19:41, ZHANG, Le wrote:
> >> >    So my question is: Can I somehow deliberately trigger
> >> >    "kernel panic" (or "kernel oops")?
> >> 
> >> For panic, echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
> > 
> > After I issued the above mentioned command, my system
> > instantly "froze to death". Nothing changed on screen,
> > no "kernel panic" or "Ooops" screen. Just frozen...
> > 
> > No reaction to keyboard or mouse. No auto-reboot either.
> > The only thing I could do is to press "Reset". Not exactly
> > what I have been expecting...
> 
> Were you running under X? The panic would have killed X, which
> wouldn't have released control over the video hardware.
> 
> There's a SysRq sequence to get around this, but I don't remember it.

Ctrl+Alt+

R E I S U B

(busier in reverse)

After a E or I you should be back into a console, unless things are badly 
screwed.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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