On Thursday 15 Mar 2012 19:36:16 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Is that Ctrl+Alt+SysRq+(R E I S U B), or is the SysRq key not actually
> > used?
> 
> Sysrq is definitely required :) Ctrl, on the other hand, is optional.
> And AltGr may be substituted for Alt.

Oops!  yes, I meant to write SysRq ... sorry!
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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