From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Unterkircher Subject: Re: forcing a reboot Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:21:29 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1098451290.1228.36.camel@winsucks> References: <20041022102923.GA1866@fede2.tumsan.fi> <60a74689041022034528df2193@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: unki@netshadow.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <60a74689041022034528df2193@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Adrian C." Cc: urgrue , admin if you really nead a reboot and you have sysrq (Magic Sysrq Key in the Menu Kernel hacking) enabled, you can use echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger to reboot - if your system is still alive then you can try the combination ALT+"Print Screen" to get the Sysrq-Menu in the console and then press the key as shown on the oncoming menu. more information you could find in the file sysrq.txt in the documentation directory of the linux kernel sources. hope this helps you. andi Am Freitag, den 22.10.2004, 13:45 +0300 schrieb Adrian C.: > You could try a killall -9 zombie_process_name before reboot. man > reboot has no force reboot option that i can see. > > --Adrian. > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:29:23 +0300, urgrue wrote: > > is there a way to force an instant reboot? in some cases "reboot" > > doesnt work, as it seems to do many things before actually initiating a > > phsyical reset, like shutting down processes. ive now run into the > > situation a few times where zombie processes or module problems can > > prevent "reboot" from completing its task. > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html