Re: System Lockup

[strawks <strawks@yahoo.fr>]

> I just experienced my first ever system lockup.  No mouse, no keyboard 
> with an Iceape screen open.

> I had saved a posting regarding SYSRQ and I tried Alt-Sysrq k then 
> Alt-Sysrq i and the Alt-Sysrq b with no response. 

Did you really press those 3 keys at the same time? To see if it works
switch to a console and try it there (Alt-Sysrq-s should print
something).

> In desperation I crashed and rebooted the system.  I am using 
> linux-image 2.6.21-2-686.  When the system came up I entered grep SYSRQ 
> /boot/config-$(uname -r) and got the response CONFIG_MAGIC-SYSRQ=y
> 
> 
> So its there.  Either I did something wrong or it doesn't work with the 
> problem I encountered.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought sysrq should work in any case but
hardware problem as it's done directly in the IRQ handler.

-- 
regards,
strawks