shane wrote:
>
> 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.....
>
> --
> "... and if you drown, die knowing you were headed for the shore." -from
> farenheight 451
>
> shane
wow... shane, i'm duly impressed with your knowledge today ;p
I think linux is the only OS I know of to use that stupid key! AFAIK,
IBM made it, and it never got used! It became a useless Key! ;p
THX!
I will try it and let you know the results. I'm seriously tempted to
load a ext3 on a diff partition on the same drive. Just run it & hit
the reset button for kicks, see what happens. ;p
Mucho Gracias ;p
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