I reboot Ubuntu 5x a week

[Bas Roufs - onderweg/ travelling]

Thanks, Steve, for your eye opener!
Bas.

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----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> On 23 July 2012 13:57, Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > In my case - Kubuntu 12.04- I have quite similar problems. At present
> > I need to reset the system at least once a day. Often the system
> > "freezes" to such an extend, that I can simply not move any more
> > anything   - no cursor, no mouse click, nothing.   in such
> > circumstances, I simply need to turn of and turn on the PC in order to
> > get the system movable again.
> 
> When this happens Bas, do you ever use the SysReq keystrokes to try to
> flush as much data out to disk and then eyeball the syslog after the
> reboot or do you just hit the reset button and carry on as normal
> after the machine comes up?
> 
> For info on SysReq keystrokes:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
> 
> Specifically, the following:
> 
> Uses
> 
> A common use of the magic SysRq key is to perform a safe reboot of a
> Linux computer which has otherwise locked up. This can prevent a fsck
> being required on reboot and gives some programs a chance to save
> emergency backups of unsaved work.[5] The QWERTY (or AZERTY)
> mnemonics: "Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring", "Reboot Even If
> System Utterly Broken" or simply the word "BUSIER" read backwards, are
> often used to remember the following Sysrq-keys sequence:
> 
> unRaw           (take control of keyboard back from X),
>   tErminate (send SIGTERM to all processes, allowing them to terminate
> gracefully),
>   kIll           (send SIGKILL to all processes, forcing them to terminate
> immediately),
>     Sync         (flush data to disk),
>     Unmount   (remount all filesystems read-only),
> reBoot.
> 
> By going through this key sequence, you give the kernel as maximum
> opportunity to close the system down cleanly, which includes syncing
> and systems logs to disk.. logs which hopefully give you a clue as you
> what is causing the problem.
> 
> If you get absolutely no response from the machine when going through
> these keys, then you have a *exceptionally* hard crash or you have a
> hardware issue (over heating, bad ram, power supply issues, etc).
> 
> Gather some info on what is causing your lock-ups and there will be
> someone here who can help you resolve them... probably! :)
> 
> 
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> Steve
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