Am 20.08.2012 17:32, schrieb Aaron Konstam: > On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 16:27 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 20.08.2012 16:21, schrieb Aaron Konstam: >>> On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 16:00 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: >>>> >>>> Am 20.08.2012 15:55, schrieb Aaron Konstam: >>>>>> If a system hangs, the most important thing is to get all your data >>>>>> written to disk, to minimize data loss. This is done by pressing "S", >>>>>> after pressing and holding down AltGr+Prt(SysRq). An often cited and >>>>>> well known combination (and easy to remember) is R-E-I-S-U-B. >>>>>> >>>>>> Hope this helps! >>>>> >>>>> Well I need to ask .What key is AltGR? and Prt and SysReg are the same >>>>> key. So what keys are you pressing? >>>> >>>> forget the AltGr >>>> it is the same as CTRL+ALT and on most keyboards the right ALT-key >>>> >>>> CTRL+ALT+PRINT = SysRQ >>>> CTRL+ALT+PRINT+S = emergency sync >>>> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key >>>> >>> >>> The web site is helpful, but the key sequences do not work. >>> In my case I am told to press ALT + Fn + SysRg , let up on Fn and let us >>> say press b. The system should reboot. There is a screen blink but no >>> reboot. >>> I can't make any of the options seem to work. What am I doing wrong? >> >> please post also to the list >> >> i am only using reply-all because moderated and it takes >> up to days until moderators are realsing posts here.... >> >> "Fn" sounds like a notebook >> on many notebook-keaboards you need to press "Fn+Print" fro the >> print-key itself, so you need "CTRL+ALT+Fn+Print+S" for emergency sync >> > > I did that. Bur CRTL+Alt+Fn+Prnt Scrn + b did not reboot the machine. > How do you make this feature work? /etc/sysctl.conf: kernel.sysrq = 1 followed by "sysctl -p" at least for security this is NOT enabled as default
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