On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote:

> On 12/11/2014 06:21 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
>> We're talking about fedup doing its thing after rebooting into the
>> upgrade kernel. It appears that the sysrq is enabled in the upgrade
>> kernel, and I do believe that I accurately explained that sysrq did
>> produce a response; unfortunately the response did not solve the problem
>> the sysrq key was intended to solve.
>>
>
> Sysrq key did produce an effect, but not, if memory serves, the effect
> it's supposed to.  Rather similar to a lock-up issue I had before swapping
> in a new mobo, where it worked reliably when I tested it, but not when I
> needed it because of hardware trouble.  No, I don't think that's what's
> going on with your system, but the responses you describe just don't sound
> right.  (And, if you're using the Magic Sysrq Key, it's ^Alt-Sysrq that's
> needed, not just sysrq.)


Only sync is enabled by default on Fedora.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysrq.txt

# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
16

So you have to do:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

Now the other commands will work. I usually just echo the letter to
/proc/sysrq-trigger.

Chris Murphy



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