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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I trigger kernel panic?
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:19:56
Message-Id: 201203151917.53229.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I trigger kernel panic? by Michael Mol
1 On Thursday 15 Mar 2012 17:02:15 Michael Mol wrote:
2 > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > On 14-Mar-12 19:41, ZHANG, Le wrote:
4 > >> > So my question is: Can I somehow deliberately trigger
5 > >> > "kernel panic" (or "kernel oops")?
6 > >>
7 > >> For panic, echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
8 > >
9 > > After I issued the above mentioned command, my system
10 > > instantly "froze to death". Nothing changed on screen,
11 > > no "kernel panic" or "Ooops" screen. Just frozen...
12 > >
13 > > No reaction to keyboard or mouse. No auto-reboot either.
14 > > The only thing I could do is to press "Reset". Not exactly
15 > > what I have been expecting...
16 >
17 > Were you running under X? The panic would have killed X, which
18 > wouldn't have released control over the video hardware.
19 >
20 > There's a SysRq sequence to get around this, but I don't remember it.
21
22 Ctrl+Alt+
23
24 R E I S U B
25
26 (busier in reverse)
27
28 After a E or I you should be back into a console, unless things are badly
29 screwed.
30 --
31 Regards,
32 Mick

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