On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@(protected):
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote:
>
> > > Neil even proposed ALT +
> > > SysRq + EISUB, to be sure everything is killed, sync'd and
> > > unmounted.
> >
> > Which might or might not work. But note that I was also talking
> > about applications being in a corrupted state (the database example).
>
> E sends a SIGTERM to all applications. Any well behaved application
> should shut down cleanly on this. I sends a SIGKILL, but it only affects
> programs that were so locked up they ignored E, so you have nothing to
> lose by then.
>

I tried ALT + SysRq + EISUB today on my MythTV backend server which
has been crashing lately. Unfortunately it's crashing so badly that
even at the server's keyboard this didn't work.

I guess my weekend fate of building a new server is sealed...

Cheers,
Mark
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