On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 02:14:28PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > magic sysrq key... Alt-SysRq-S to sync the filesystems followed by > Alt-SysRq-U tu remount readonly. then reboot. > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/457 > > > doesn't *always* work, but I've gotten to work a couple times on > otherwise totally unresponsive machines... > If I remember right, the magic key is disabled in stock debian kernels. Do you compile your own? Doug.