On 08/22/2012 06:26 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
i explained you in my last mail that CTRL+ALT+PRINT+B is plain stoopid, so nobody will do this - i CONFIRMED multiple times that STRG+ALT+PRINT+S does a sync, i hear the drives and i get messages in dmesg, /var/log/messages AND also in a ALT-F2 console independent if there is a login or not, if there is the login-prompt i get
SysRq : Emergency Sync Emergency Sync complete
directly below the prompt
That's exactly what I saw when I tried it. I've never tried following it with b, except when (as it turned out) the system wasn't responding to anything, but maybe I will next time I need to reboot anyway.