Guest raghugs Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 (edited) Hello Everybody i think only few people know how to use Magic SysRq key feature built into Mandriva and many other GNU/Linux distributions when system locks up. The Magic SysRq key is a key sequence that allows some basic commands to be passed directly to the kernel SysRq key also known as print screen key in most of the keyboards can be used with LEFT Alt key and some alphabet keys to fecilate following features when system locked up. Alt+SysRq+r will put keyboard in raw mode Alt+SysRq+s will sync the disk Alt+SysRq+e will terminate all processes Alt+SysRq+i will kill all processes Alt+SysRq+u will remount all filesystems read only Alt+SysRq+b will reboot the system Note : If your filesystem is Ext3 or ReiserFS and on reboot it wants you to do a filesystem check, don't touch any key and let it recover the journal automatically, this information is copied from http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.ph...f=14&t=503&st=1 and edited for easy understanding, Edited April 19, 2005 by raghugs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 I have pinned this because although it has been said before it is long lost in pages of questions.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 I added this to tips and tricks myself years ago. LOL https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...7001entry7001 Edit by theYinYeti: changed this usefull URL from http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtop...findpost&p=7001 to its newer value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 Yep I knew something about skinny elephants but it seemed a nice topic tip to let everyone see... sometimes the search facility is 'lacking' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest raghugs Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 I added this to tips and tricks myself years ago. LOL http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtop...findpost&p=7001 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hello Anon your link reveals information head and shoulders above my post reveals. i saw this information i posted above in another forum but in a bit compilcated form, after some time i forget the information. for some reason my system got locking up frequently so i asked in irc if there is any alternative ways to recover the system after lockup rememering some alternative ways exits but i forget exactly what is it, most of them didn't even provided information my post reveals, and i breifly looked in the tips and tricks forum for some unknown reasons your post didn't get pinned. after some time i accidently came across that tip in that another forum, immediatly i wanted to share that information with Mandrake user board, so i posted it here, if you think my post duplicates yours badly you can without any hestitation delete it, but again if you delete my post don't forget to pin yours because it must not get available after digging in forum, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 raghugs: I pinned it (as mod of tips n tricks) because its nice and brief and useful. Now I should be able to merge these posts..... raghugs.... I like your post because its exactly what tips n tricks is about (IMHO) .. anon is an old expert :D and Tom Berger was a Guru (read anon's info on the main page) NOw Ill try and link em together later :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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