On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:05:13AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <[🔎] 68b1e2610908190512y3dc7d46eob79b6398686b7441@mail.gmail.com>, Liviu > Andronic wrote: > >On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland <wentland@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: > >> I can't really help you with your problem, but a "hard" shutdown is > >> almost never necessary. You can send various low-level commands to your > >> kernel using the "SysRq" Key [1], which will allow you to reboot a > >> computer without corrupting the filesystem. > > > >Nope, this didn't work on my panic-ed kernel. > > Yes, the "Magic" SysRq is handled entirely[1] within the kernel, but if you > don't have a kernel nothing will work. A frozen userland (including X) can > be recovered (or at least saved) via Alt+SysRq key combinations. some times you have to grab the keyboard back from X i think it is the RAW option > > >From my experience with > >Gentoo, kernels can quite often hang and not respond to SysRq. > > They shouldn't. If your kernel regularly panics or hangs, it is probably a > bug and should be reported. It could be bad HW though. -- "But the God I know is not one that -- the God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think I'm a better person than you are, by the way." - George W. Bush 06/24/2004 Washington, DC in an Interview on Radio and Television Ireland
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