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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 14:41:12 +0200, lee wrote: |
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>>>>> On Linux now there's the Magic SysRq Key feature for that. |
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>>>> I always can't remember which keys to press with that, so I have it |
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>>>> disabled. |
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>>> BUSIER backwards. |
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>>>> And when the keyboard is unresponsive, it won't work. |
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>>> It usually does. The kernel sees the Magic key events directly, so even |
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>>> if your X server has crashed, it will still respond to Alt-SysReq. |
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>> I used that on a few puters. I don't recall this ever not working. X |
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>> may not see the keyboard but the kernel does. It's a life saver at |
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>> times too. At least you can sync and unmount cleanly. |
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> If you're dealing with a kernel panic of some kind (which you |
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> inevitably are when you are doing this sort of thing), all bets are |
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> off. I'll agree that usually the magic sysrq works. However, there |
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> are certainly going to be cases where it doesn't, or at least where |
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> parts of it don't work. In my case the part that usually fails for me |
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> right now is btrfs, so unmounting won't work anyway (though I guess it |
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> will take care of the ext4 backup partition that is only rarely |
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> touched anyway). |
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That is true but it seems to work most of the time for the usual |
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failures. Ask some old timers on this list, hitting reset or having to |
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pull the plug from the wall really gets on my nerve, every single one of |
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them and in a hurry. Dare I think about hal and what a mess it caused |
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for me. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |