Re: crash and acpid
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Russell Coker wrote:
>
> If what you want is a way to recover your machine when an invasive program
> like an X server hangs then the Secure Attention Keypress may be a better
> solution.
>
> I have the following in my init scripts:
> echo "control alt keycode 107 = SAK " | loadkeys
>
> That makes CTRL-ALT-END be the SAK key-press. Pressing it tells the kernel
> to send signal 9 to every process on the current virtual console. It works
> well for me when I have X crash (which hasn't happened in 4.1.x as far as I
> recall).
The problem is that when it happened yesterday, the keyboard was
completely frozen and wasn't getting even soft reboot like control alt del
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