On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Russell Coker wrote:
One annoying issue with using the power button to suspend is that there is no option if you really want to shut the machine down.
Agreed.
There are a huge number of mistakes you can make in Linux sys-admin or development work that make it impossible to login to a Linux machine and require booting with init=/bin/bash for recovery. It's really annoying to have to unplug the laptop, turn it upside down, and remove the battery to cause a reboot in such situations.
# echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger