I have given it a lot longer then a few minutes. Sometimes over an hour before someone had an opertunity to get to the box. On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:26, Greg Nate wrote: > It may be working...give it a few minutes. No output is normal. However, I'd try killing the processes, syncing and unmounting disks before you use the "b" option. > > greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Bauer [mailto:jfbauer@nfr.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 1:08 PM > To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org > Subject: SysRq: b > > > Anyone know what might cause SysRq-b to not work? I get > the "SysRq : Resetting" message, but nothing ever happens > after that. No other sysrq's produce any output after that > either. I have to hit the reset button on the system. And I have > waited a really long time. Kind of a pain when you are nowhere > near the computer. > > This happens after the system seems to mostly lockup (that > due to a bug in my kernel code). A timer function is still > going as I can see the printk's on the console, but user-space > isn't responsive. > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
