From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266212AbUA3Auk (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:50:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266263AbUA3Auk (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:50:40 -0500 Received: from inet-mail4.oracle.com ([148.87.2.204]:7582 "EHLO inet-mail4.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266212AbUA3Aui (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:50:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4019AA2D.7010609@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 01:49:49 +0100 From: Alessandro Suardi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20040107 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel , Vojtech Pavlik Subject: Alt-SysRq-B doesn't work in recent 2.6 kernels Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-White-List-Member: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Now that my oops-on-boot has been fixed thanks to many on lkml and a spot-on tip by Len Brown, I'll chase another one of the issues I still have :) The problem in $subject happens reliably at least in 2 cases: 1. after the ACPI oops-on-boot (-mm tree and 2.6.2-rc2+) 2. in 2.6.2-rc1+ after the Cisco VPN client daemon (cvpnd, v.4.0.3.B) gets stuck in D state [__down] and I try to shutdown but obviously that gets stuck in turn In both cases I can Alt-SysRq-{P,T,S,U,O} [though in case 1 Off only prints out "Power Off" but doesn't actually do it], and when I attempt a Alt-SysRq-B I only get atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio0 reports too many keys pressed. and no effect at all. Available for testing, as usual :) thanks in advance & ciao, --alessandro "Two rivers run too deep The seasons change and so do I" (U2, "Indian Summer Sky")