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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Donnerstag 31 Dezember 2009, Dale wrote: |
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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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>>>>> |
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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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>>>> |
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>>> sysrq syncs the filesystem? I always wondered what that key actually |
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>>> did... |
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>>> |
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>>> Wait, to get sysrq is Shift+printscreen, right? |
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>>> Marcus |
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>>> |
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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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> and sometimes K is all you need. |
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> |
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> Thank god for /usr/src/linux/Documentation |
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Thanks for the info! |
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Marcus |
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