On Donnerstag 31 Dezember 2009, Dale wrote: > Marcus Wanner wrote: > > On 12/30/2009 8:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:12:29 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote: > >>> I had to hard reset the > >>> system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the > >>> wrong contents because they had been "written to" but not actually > >>> flushed to the disk, and it took me about 10 hard resets to figure that > >>> out. > >> > >> Another reason to you the magic sysrq keys instead of the reset button. > >> S syncs your filesystems. > > > > sysrq syncs the filesystem? I always wondered what that key actually > > did... > > > > Wait, to get sysrq is Shift+printscreen, right? > > > > Marcus > > This is from a post by Neil a good long while back: > > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The usual > full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B > > Reboot > Even > If > System > Utterly > Broken > > > I usually only get to the second or third key and I am back at a console. >
and sometimes K is all you need. Thank god for /usr/src/linux/Documentation
