Re: [GTALUG] Magic SysRq: ever known to fail?

2019-08-20 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2019-08-20 02:34 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > The other is to attempt to switch to a text console using Ctrl-Alt-F1. That doesn't seem to work any more.  I've done that many times in the past, but now it doesn't work on either my deskop (15.1) or notebook (15.0) computers. --- Post to

Re: [GTALUG] Magic SysRq: ever known to fail?

2019-08-20 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2019-08-20 1:27 p.m., Stewart Russell via talk wrote: This shouldn't happen, but I've got a Linux computer with the clock frozen at an hour ago and unsaved work that I can't access Does Magic SysRq always work? [snip] A website took out Firefox's JS process, which coincidentally manages

Re: [GTALUG] Magic SysRq: ever known to fail?

2019-08-20 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2019-08-20 1:27 p.m., Stewart Russell wrote: Does Magic SysRq always work? Am I doing it wrong? (Alt + PrtSc + key, eg REISUB) And on pressing Send on my phone, of course, Alt + PrtSc + REISUB worked and rebooted. Wouldn't you know. (I have to say, it's an **amazingly** helpful system

[GTALUG] Magic SysRq: ever known to fail?

2019-08-20 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
This shouldn't happen, but I've got a Linux computer with the clock frozen at an hour ago and unsaved work that I can't access Does Magic SysRq always work? Am I doing it wrong? (Alt + PrtSc + key, eg REISUB) A website took out Firefox's JS process, which coincidentally manages Gnome's UI.