On Sun Mar 09 12:35 -0800, Brent Hasty wrote:
> For those who dont know it already, before hitting the reset button, execute 
> the alt sysrequest shutdown procedure, press the following key commands in 
> sequence, even if no changes appear on the screen.  This key command will put 
> away your files, kill running programs, unmount filesystems, and reboot your 
> machine in a gracefull linux fashion (99% of the time).

Unfortunately, I've been dealing with cases on some of the .21-pre
kernels (-0.13mdk seems to have fixed that issue) of a dereferenced null
pointer in the kernel which disabled Magic SysRq...

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