Machine on a deadlock

[Doug]

On 09/25/2014 11:41 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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 ...
> 
> poc
> 
I should have said, hold alt+ctrl+print-screen and type r e i s b. It's tricky
to hold the three keys, but it can be done. I just tried it. Use lower case letters.

--doug