On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 11:43 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 11:33 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [...] > > In this kind of situation it would be nice to have an unblockable > > attention key, like SysRq but not so low-level. Something that would > > simply force the system into VT2 for example, and didn't depend on X > > working. > > You can't do that, really. Getting to vt2 requires getting X to let go > of the hardware, because the vt subsystem is a raging pile of trash that > we would be _far_ better off just deleting. Read that again: X has to > voluntarily relinquish the hardware. If it isn't responding to c-a-bs, > it certainly isn't going to respond to any other requests. OK. > But nooooo. Gotta keep having VTs so we can recover when X screws up. > I mean, it's the unix way. Which apparently means designing failure in > from the start, and calling it a feature. > > This is a bad design. The panic button doesn't make it better, it just > makes it okay to be even worse than the design requires. Take the > training wheels off already. Do you have an alternative suggestion? poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
