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On Montag 25 Mai 2009, sean wrote: |
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> Does anyone know a way to kill an X session when it locks up? |
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> CTRL-ALT-Backspace and anything else that was tried does not kill the |
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> session. |
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> Sadly we have to pull the power to get back in. |
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> There is not other system at the location to get in remotely. |
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> |
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> Thanks |
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> Sean |
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a) you use a 'new' xserver and got screwed by the 'new' feature that you can |
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not zap anymore (thank you Redhat!): |
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Section "ServerFlags" |
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Option "DontZap" "no" |
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EndSection |
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b) MagicSysreqKeys. Read about them, they are awesome. In short: |
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e sends TERM to all processes (except init) |
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i kills all processes (except init) |
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s syncs partitions |
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u remounts everything ro |
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b boots a box |
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o turns off a box |
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k saks a box - kills all processes on that vt |
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r unraws the keyboars - takes it away from X. |
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read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt for the whole bucket of awesome. |
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