Booting

[Reindl Harald]

Am 03.07.2013 23:00, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
> On 03.07.2013 22:32, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 03.07.2013 22:19, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
>>> On 03.07.2013 20:30, Richard Vickery wrote:
>>>> Is there a way to reboot the computer while its stuck on "Starting GNOME Desktop Manager"?
>>>>
>>> Yes, press the power button for a few seconds and then release it. This should work on most PCs and notebooks
>> this is a *hard power off* - gratulations....
> 
> So, what? Question was about rebooting without specifying 
> type of reboot.

so what - for your tip pull the power supply would be quicker and the same

> I've never had any problems when hard rebooting Linux,
> especially just after power on

maybe luck
maybe you simply not know which not so important files got truncated

a hard power off is nothing anyone should recommend to another
person if he is not the one solving problems which may appear
after that *without a big fat warning*

>> if the kernel is still alive and acpid running press the power button *short*
>> and wait a while - the system will do a *clean powerdown* in 99.9% of all cases
>>
> This might work or not in this particular situation but we know nothing
> about kernel condition.

since this is mostly a GNOME problem pretty sure acpid works

if such problems are happening repeatly configure sysrq
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

and last but not least CTRL+ALT+F3 may offer a text terminal with a working login
however, a hard power off is the very last resort and not recommendable

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