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From: Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:44:35
Message-Id: 4261617.m6DgrlJRg4@navi
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user? by lee
1 On Tuesday, April 07, 2015 9:21:38 PM lee wrote:
2 > Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> writes:
3 >
4 > > On Saturday, April 04, 2015 2:41:12 PM lee wrote:
5 > >> I always can't remember which keys to press with that, so I have it
6 > >> disabled.
7 > >>
8 > >> And when the keyboard is unresponsive, it won't work.
9 > >
10 > > It will in many cases (probably most). Usually it's xorg that "freezes"
11 the
12 > > keyboard, in those cases ctrl-alt-sysrq-r followed by ctrl-alt-f1 should
13 get
14 > > you to the VT where you can restart xorg. I think the kernel needs to be
15 > > completely locked with interrupts disabled or locked in a higher priority
16 > > interrupt (unlikely) for it not to work or the USB stack totally broken. I
17 can
18 > > see some of the commands failing or even completely locking the kernel if
19 > > something's really messed up.
20 >
21 > How do you remember these keys? A long time ago, I even printed a list,
22 > and of course, it got lost before I ever came close to needing it.
23 > Paper is just too volatile.
24
25 Like I said: "Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken" I don't have a way to
26 remember the specific keys other than knowing what the shutdown sequence is.
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31 Fernando Rodriguez