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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