Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:27:48 +0100, n952162 wrote: > >> There's a million ways a system can hang. Acpi is a mechanism for >> shipping kernel events to user space. If user space isn't working, acpi >> won't work. I think. > But if it's just X that is locked, then ACPI could be used to rescue the > system in a less aggressive way than Magic SysReq. > >
That's why I was asking. I've had to use Magic SysPeq a few times but thought this would/might be a better option in most cases but maybe not all. I will say this, the magic works in every case I can recall so far. On occasion when I reboot, it does the fsck and all but nothing appears to be lost. Most of the time, it shuts down pretty clean. I've got to where when I do the sync part, I give it a minute or so to finish. That seems to give it time to sync and unmount cleanly. As is the usual tho, this depends on the type of lockup I guess. Dale :-) :-)
