Magic Sysreg key problems.

[Joe Zeff]

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.