On Thursday 11 April 2002 11:56, Jussi Aalto opened a general hailing
frequency and transmitted to all open stations:
> I have experienced a couple of TOTAL lockups too and survived them even
> though had to do master reset. I waited for a while before resetting
> hoping that the system wasn't too busy so it could write some of the
> buffers back to disk (if it makes any difference, I'm not sure, someone
> correct me if I'm wrong).
did you try the "last resort"
"Alt" + "SysRq" + "r"
"Alt" + "SysRq" + "s"
"Alt" + "SysRq" + "e"
"Alt" + "SysRq" + "i"
"Alt" + "SysRq" + "u"
"Alt" + "SysRq" + "b"
before rebooting? that saved me once when i locked as after the first
command the x restart worked, everything clear. a second freeze on another
machine this seemed to help, but i am not certain. there was no data lost
anyway.
so you know:
"Alt" + "SysRq" + "r" puts the keyboard in 'raw' mode. Sometimes after only
this command you can try to kill the X server and all is well, if not,
press on.
"Alt" + "SysRq" + "s" attempts to write all unsaved data to disk ('sync' the
disk) to prevent file corruption.
"Alt" + "SysRq" + "e" sends a termination signal to all processes, that is
the same as killing every program running.
"Alt" + "SysRq" + "i" sends a kill signal to all processes. If any processes
are still running after the last key command this will clean the up.
"Alt" + "SysRq" + "u" remounts all systems in read-only mode. This is to
prevent file system corruption.
"Alt" + "SysRq" + "b" reboots the system.
or at least that is what i am told.....
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