On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 17:19:46 +0000 (+0000), Peter Salisbury wrote:
> In fact the system is in such a mess that even Alt-SysRq-t won't
> complete but I am delighted to learn about those key combinations,
> especially Alt-SysRq-B which saves the really uncool alternative of
> pressing the power switch for 4 seconds to close down and then again
> to reboot!
I normally use "SUB" - Alt-SysRq-S, Alt-SysRq-U, Alt-SysRq-B:
- sync disks, unmount, reboot
That does sounds a really nasty bug though - my commiserations :(
Adrian
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