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From: wabe <wabenbau@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:28:14
Message-Id: 20170428012723.7099ea29@hal9000.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world by Floyd Anderson
1 Floyd Anderson <f.a@××××.net> wrote:
2
3 > On Do, 27 Apr 16:56:00 -0500
4 > Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > >One thing about alt sysreq, once you get to a certain point, you
6 > >have >to go "all the way" with it. I've found that just the R and E
7 > >generally >gets things back to a point it is accessible and I don't
8 > >have to go >through it all. I think once you get to the I or S, it's
9 > >all or nothing at that point. Even after the E, you may have to
10 > >start/restart some init processes. FYI, I'm pretty sure the S is
11 > >what syncs the file systems and the U unmounts everything. Of
12 > >course, the B reboots. I can't recall what the others do exactly.
13 > With access to the kernel sources, you doesn’t have to remember what
14 > the others do, see
15 > ‘/usr/src/linux/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst’.
16
17 This file doesn't exist on my system (not even the directory
18 "admin-guide").
19
20 I can find it under:
21
22 /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt
23
24 But in my case I even had no access to any file, because no command
25 was working anymore. So I think it is better to have these information
26 on a good old sheet of paper. ;-)
27
28 --
29 Regards
30 wabe

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Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world Floyd Anderson <f.a@××××.net>