Machine on a deadlock

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 07:28 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 09/25/2014 02:39 AM, Doug wrote:
> >> >
> > I don't know if this works in your distro, but in PCLOS, you can hold
> > ALT + Print Screen and type R E I S B. If it works, you'll wind up in
> > a run-level  and you can type  start x and be back to the system.
> 
> This is the Magic Sysrq Key, 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key and it's available in 
> Fedora, as in AFAIK all distros.  Please read the section on configuring 
> it, as I'm not sure if it's set up by default.

I'm pretty sure it's not set up by default (at least it wasn't last time
I looked, which is admittedly a while back). Unfortunately that means
that the first time you think about enabling it is when the system is
frozen ...

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