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On Mittwoch, 7. März 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:22:24 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> > The only way out is to hit the reset button: eg Ctl-Alt-F2 doesn't work. |
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> If you have MAGIC_SYSREQ enabled in your kernel config, you can do a |
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> clean reboot fro the majority of lockups by holding Alt and SysRq and |
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> pressing S, U and B in sequence, which respectively sync your drives, |
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> unmount them (and remount read-only) and reboot. |
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but U will not work, when processes are hogging the harddisk. |
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So start with E (terminate all processes), I (Kill all processes), and then S, |
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U, B. |
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Or even better, start with R and K. Sometimes you can wrestle control from X |
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that way and get your box back into a working state, without rebooting. |
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And the best thing - there is even a builtin help.... |
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