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Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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> On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: |
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>>> I had to hard reset the |
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>>> system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the |
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>>> wrong contents because they had been "written to" but not actually |
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>>> flushed to the disk, and it took me about 10 hard resets to figure that |
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>>> out. |
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>> Another reason to you the magic sysrq keys instead of the reset button. |
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>> S syncs your filesystems. |
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> sysrq syncs the filesystem? I always wondered what that key actually |
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> did... |
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> Wait, to get sysrq is Shift+printscreen, right? |
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> Marcus |
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This is from a post by Neil a good long while back: |
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Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual |
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full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B |
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Reboot |
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Even |
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If |
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System |
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Utterly |
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Broken |
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I usually only get to the second or third key and I am back at a console. |
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That help? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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