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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03 <at> volumehost.net> writes: |
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> > > > and provided you have enabled CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ in your kernel, |
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> > > > hold down Alt and SysReq/PrtScr and press S, U and B in turn to |
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> > > > reboot (reasonably) cleanly. Pausing a couple of seconds between |
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> > > > each key is probably a good idea. |
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Kernel Hacking: |
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CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y |
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> > Interesting idea however this laptop does not have this key |
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> > "SysReq/PrtScr". |
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> Every keyboard has a SysRq button. On most, it is shared with PrtScrn. |
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> However, I've also seen it shared with either an F key or ScrollLock or by |
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> itself. Also, I've seen laptops where you had to hold the Fn key to get a |
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> key that acts like SysRq. |
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> I guarantee you've got one, although I suppose it might not be labeled |
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> SysRq at all. |
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OK, sorry; between being very tired and aging eyes, I had to use |
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a magnifying glass and found these 2 keys: |
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"home/prt sc" and "end/sys rq" the bottom ones look like function key |
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markings...(tiny font) |
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So When X/kde freezes up everything I'm going to hold down these (3) keys: |
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ALT+FUNCKEY+SYSRQ" |
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and then Sequentially press "E I S U B" with a 2 second delay between |
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keystokes |
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and the system will cleanly reboot? |
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This failed to work for me. After it hung, I tried the above and |
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many variations on this theme of keystroke to reboot. Nothing worked. |
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However, upon powercycle reboot, the system came back clean |
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with no fsck..... Maybe this keystroke sequence clean up everything, |
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but failed to initiate a reboot? |
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Well, with no changes to the system or config files , |
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this time X/kde failed to launch, or I guess |
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I should say the screen went black (dark) and just latched up the |
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system completely, all remote ssh session and the console LATCHED UP. |
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Repeatable now so KDE now launches to a dark (latched up) screen |
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now. When I boot to a console, the system is fine. When I launch |
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X/kde via startx it latches up immediately.... |
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I have no idea how to figure out this problem. To me it has to be |
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the xorg.conf file? |
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