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On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: |
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> > > Neil even proposed ALT + |
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> > > SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and |
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> > > unmounted. |
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> > Which might or might not work. But note that I was also talking |
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> > about applications being in a corrupted state (the database example). |
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> E sends a SIGTERM to all applications. Any well behaved application |
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> should shut down cleanly on this. I sends a SIGKILL, but it only affects |
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> programs that were so locked up they ignored E, so you have nothing to |
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> lose by then. |
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I tried ALT + SysRq + EISUB today on my MythTV backend server which |
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has been crashing lately. Unfortunately it's crashing so badly that |
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even at the server's keyboard this didn't work. |
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I guess my weekend fate of building a new server is sealed... |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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