On Tuesday, April 07, 2015 9:21:38 PM lee wrote: > Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com> writes: > > > On Saturday, April 04, 2015 2:41:12 PM lee wrote: > >> I always can't remember which keys to press with that, so I have it > >> disabled. > >> > >> And when the keyboard is unresponsive, it won't work. > > > > It will in many cases (probably most). Usually it's xorg that "freezes" the > > keyboard, in those cases ctrl-alt-sysrq-r followed by ctrl-alt-f1 should get > > you to the VT where you can restart xorg. I think the kernel needs to be > > completely locked with interrupts disabled or locked in a higher priority > > interrupt (unlikely) for it not to work or the USB stack totally broken. I can > > see some of the commands failing or even completely locking the kernel if > > something's really messed up. > > How do you remember these keys? A long time ago, I even printed a list, > and of course, it got lost before I ever came close to needing it. > Paper is just too volatile.
Like I said: "Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken" I don't have a way to remember the specific keys other than knowing what the shutdown sequence is. -- Fernando Rodriguez
