On Mittwoch, 7. März 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 16:22:24 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > > The only way out is to hit the reset button: eg Ctl-Alt-F2 doesn't work. > > If you have MAGIC_SYSREQ enabled in your kernel config, you can do a > clean reboot fro the majority of lockups by holding Alt and SysRq and > pressing S, U and B in sequence, which respectively sync your drives, > unmount them (and remount read-only) and reboot.
but U will not work, when processes are hogging the harddisk. So start with E (terminate all processes), I (Kill all processes), and then S, U, B. Or even better, start with R and K. Sometimes you can wrestle control from X that way and get your box back into a working state, without rebooting. And the best thing - there is even a builtin help.... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
