> cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during
> that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade.
>
> > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The
> > usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly
> > Broken By ${DEITY} - this tagline picker is spooky at times :-O
> > -- Neil Bothwick
>
> I tried this once when I was unable to get my keyboard to respond to
> anything else. I made it through the first three or four and was
> returned to a console with a working keyboard. Since you are shutting
> down, you may want to go through them all to be safe. I think the last
> one does a reboot.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
Hi Dale,
thanks a lot for your help!!! :)
This will help to bring donw the machine in an more
cleaner way as simply pressing the power switch ;-)
But:
How can I figure out, what hangs the shutdown process itsself?
Keep hacking!
mcc
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