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Before the power button

If even Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn’t work, use the SAK. Hold down Alt-PrintScreen (this is the SysRq key combo), and while holding down those keys, press the letters ‘S’ to sync the disks, then ‘U’ to unmount the filesystems and ‘B’ to reboot the computer. Always try that before going for the power button. It’s a bit awkward to do all that while holding Alt-PrintScreen, but it’s not something you’ll do often

2 Responses to “Before the power button”

  1. on 05 Jun 2008 at 11:31 amAniruddh

    hope one doesn’t have to use this too often…
    btw how often did u have to SAK? :-)

  2. on 05 Jun 2008 at 1:49 pmSri

    Ohh trust me its a Disk Saver when you are testing a vanilla kernel with half the modules not selected :)

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