Purpose of “SysRq” button in our keyboard.
Posted 12-09-2010 at 02:19 PM by thasuresh
Hai friends,
When i started to use computer, From that day i had doubt with “PrtSc/SysRq” button. All of us knew the purpose of “PtrSc” button (i.e) “Print screen the current window “. But most of us don’t know the use of “SysRq” button. today i search in google about this, i got the answer. The small description os “Sysrq” button. ;-)
The main use of this button is,
Reboot machine when everything is hanging
<alt> + <print screen/sys rq> + <R> – <S> – <E> – <I> – <U> – <B>
If the machine is hanging and the only help would be the power button, this key-combination will help to reboot your machine (more or less) gracefully.
R – gives back control of the keyboard
S – issues a sync
E – sends all processes but init the term singal
I – sends all processes but init the kill signal
U – mounts all filesystem ro to prevent a fsck at reboot
B – reboots the system
Save your file before trying this out, this will reboot your machine without warning!
“Raising Elephants” mnemonic device
A common idiom to perform a safe reboot of a Linux computer which has otherwise locked up, the QWERTY(It’s a keyboard layout) (or AZERTY) mnemonic “Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring”, “Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken” or simply remembering the word “BUSIER” backwards, is often useful. It stands for
* 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.
This can prevent a fsck being required on reboot and gives some programs a chance to save emergency backups of unsaved work.
In practice, each command may require a few seconds to complete, especially if feedback is unavailable from the screen due to a freeze or display corruption. For example, sending SIGKILL to processes which have not yet finished terminating can cause data loss.
In Linux distributions Enable SysRq key:
The SysRq key can be disabled with the following command:
$ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
To Disable:
$ echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
Ex:
In terminal,
$ echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger
Or
This is equivalent to the key combination Alt + SysRq + B which reboots the machine.
The feature is controlled both by a compile-time option in the kernel configuration, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ, and a sysctl kernel parameter,kernel.sysrq.
Source and more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
:-)
When i started to use computer, From that day i had doubt with “PrtSc/SysRq” button. All of us knew the purpose of “PtrSc” button (i.e) “Print screen the current window “. But most of us don’t know the use of “SysRq” button. today i search in google about this, i got the answer. The small description os “Sysrq” button. ;-)
The main use of this button is,
Reboot machine when everything is hanging
<alt> + <print screen/sys rq> + <R> – <S> – <E> – <I> – <U> – <B>
If the machine is hanging and the only help would be the power button, this key-combination will help to reboot your machine (more or less) gracefully.
R – gives back control of the keyboard
S – issues a sync
E – sends all processes but init the term singal
I – sends all processes but init the kill signal
U – mounts all filesystem ro to prevent a fsck at reboot
B – reboots the system
Save your file before trying this out, this will reboot your machine without warning!
“Raising Elephants” mnemonic device
A common idiom to perform a safe reboot of a Linux computer which has otherwise locked up, the QWERTY(It’s a keyboard layout) (or AZERTY) mnemonic “Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring”, “Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken” or simply remembering the word “BUSIER” backwards, is often useful. It stands for
* 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.
This can prevent a fsck being required on reboot and gives some programs a chance to save emergency backups of unsaved work.
In practice, each command may require a few seconds to complete, especially if feedback is unavailable from the screen due to a freeze or display corruption. For example, sending SIGKILL to processes which have not yet finished terminating can cause data loss.
In Linux distributions Enable SysRq key:
The SysRq key can be disabled with the following command:
$ echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
To Disable:
$ echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
Ex:
In terminal,
$ echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger
Or
This is equivalent to the key combination Alt + SysRq + B which reboots the machine.
The feature is controlled both by a compile-time option in the kernel configuration, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ, and a sysctl kernel parameter,kernel.sysrq.
Source and more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
:-)
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