Am 03.07.2013 23:00, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz: > On 03.07.2013 22:32, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 03.07.2013 22:19, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz: >>> On 03.07.2013 20:30, Richard Vickery wrote: >>>> Is there a way to reboot the computer while its stuck on "Starting GNOME Desktop Manager"? >>>> >>> Yes, press the power button for a few seconds and then release it. This should work on most PCs and notebooks >> this is a *hard power off* - gratulations.... > > So, what? Question was about rebooting without specifying > type of reboot. so what - for your tip pull the power supply would be quicker and the same > I've never had any problems when hard rebooting Linux, > especially just after power on maybe luck maybe you simply not know which not so important files got truncated a hard power off is nothing anyone should recommend to another person if he is not the one solving problems which may appear after that *without a big fat warning* >> if the kernel is still alive and acpid running press the power button *short* >> and wait a while - the system will do a *clean powerdown* in 99.9% of all cases >> > This might work or not in this particular situation but we know nothing > about kernel condition. since this is mostly a GNOME problem pretty sure acpid works if such problems are happening repeatly configure sysrq http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key and last but not least CTRL+ALT+F3 may offer a text terminal with a working login however, a hard power off is the very last resort and not recommendable
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