Booting and poweroff

[Richard Vickery]

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Pedro Francisco
<pedrogfrancisco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Richard Vickery
> <richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Frequently when booting the GUI hangs on the full F blue circle, and
>> when going to poweroff or reboot it hangs while shutting down until I
>> lose patience. At times I have left it hang over night only to wake to
>> see it still hanging for poweroff, so I reboot without waiting. I
>> never experienced this in i386, and may go  back to that side since
>> there were no problems like this. In the mean time, where is the file
>> that records what happened?
>
> Regarding boot-only, try:
> $ sudo journalctl -b
> and look for GDM failures. I've read some failures are expected
> because gdm slave someting borks attempting to use VT1 for something
> something and eventually is able to start, but sometimes it never does
> and I need to login on VT2 and do
> $ systemctl restart gdm.service
>
> It appears to be better on latest kernel BUT I've added patches to get
> BFS (CPU scheduler) and since it would appear to be a run condition
> with Something Accounts, the reason for it being better may be
> unrelated to the newer kernel version.
>
> Regarding shutdown, it is also better since a few months, but when it
> does happen I use the Magic Keys combination - R-E-I-S-U-B to
> shutdown.
>
> P.S.: sorry for the excessive use of 'something', can't check the
> actual service names now. Also, Magic Keys are disabled by default on
> Fedora.

Since the Magic Keys are disabled by default, how does one enable them?

Thanks for the help.