I know that it's possible to enable ctrl-alt-del to kill X Windows, buy
what was the rationale for getting rid of it?

REISUB is such overkill for the most common problems -- which can be
solved by either killing X or logging out!

Is there nothing, enabled by default, less drastic than REISUB?

thanks,

Thufir


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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I know that it's possible to enable ctrl-alt-del to kill X Windows, buy
> what was the rationale for getting rid of it?
>
> REISUB is such overkill for the most common problems -- which can be
> solved by either killing X or logging out!
>
> Is there nothing, enabled by default, less drastic than REISUB?

You're confusing ctrl-alt-backspace and ctrl-alt-del.

The first is to kill X and it can be re-enabled through the GUI or the
CLI. It's probably been disabled in default X installs to prevent
anyone from using it by mistake.

The second is to reboot and AFAIK it's enabled by default and can be
disabled through the BIOS.

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On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:28:24 -0500, Tom H wrote:


> The first is to kill X and it can be re-enabled through the GUI or the
> CLI. It's probably been disabled in default X installs to prevent anyone
> from using it by mistake.

Well, my question remains: REISUB is overkill. Isn't there anything
less drastic which works by default?


-Thufir


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On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:28:24 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>
>> The first is to kill X and it can be re-enabled through the GUI or the
>> CLI. It's probably been disabled in default X installs to prevent anyone
>> from using it by mistake.
>
> Well, my question remains: *REISUB is overkill. *Isn't there anything
> less drastic which works by default?

As you said, logging out and ordering a shutdown will normally work.
The SysReq keystroke sequence intended to perform a shutdown when the
kernel is hanging barely on to it's sanity. I've had to use it twice
since 1994.


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On 03/05/2011 07:43 AM, Thufir Hawat wrote:

On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:28:24 -0500, Tom H wrote:



The first is to kill X and it can be re-enabled through the GUI or the
CLI. It's probably been disabled in default X installs to prevent anyone
from using it by mistake.


Well, my question remains: REISUB is overkill. Isn't there anything
less drastic which works by default?


-Thufir




You can use ctrl-alt-F1 (through F6) to switch to a different virtual
console, which will give you a text logon. Use alt-f7 to go back. The
extra 'ctrl' is only needed when the active console has X running.


You may use alt-sysrq-R to force keyboard control away from X if the
commands above don't work - in that case I think adding ctrl to alt-F1
is no longer needed.


You may use alt-sysrq-K to kill all processes on the active virtual
terminal (unless I'm misremembering?). However if X is borked, I'm not
sure which of these routes will switch to text mode correctly.


A trick I've used myself is when the screensaver password box becomes
unresponsive. (My previous system at work had that sometimes). After
switching to virtual console 1 and logging in, I'd send a sighup to the
relevant process and it would then start working again.


PleegWat

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On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 01:46:11AM +0000, Thufir Hawat wrote:
> I know that it's possible to enable ctrl-alt-del to kill X Windows, buy
> what was the rationale for getting rid of it?

Too easy to hit by accident. I've done that myself. Twice.

> REISUB is such overkill for the most common problems -- which can be
> solved by either killing X or logging out!
>
> Is there nothing, enabled by default, less drastic than REISUB?

Alt+SysRq+K (kill all processes running on this virtual console) is the
closest thing to the old Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (kill X).

I've had to use it once, and it worked fine for me (Intel video with
kernel modesetting). IIRC upstart then restarted gdm for me, so I
got a new login screen automatically.

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On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:28:24 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> The first is to kill X and it can be re-enabled through the GUI or the
>> CLI. It's probably been disabled in default X installs to prevent anyone
>> from using it by mistake.
>
> Well, my question remains: *REISUB is overkill. *Isn't there anything
> less drastic which works by default?

What's so difficult about re-enabling ctrl-alt-backspace?

Switching to another vt and kiling X orstopping/killing gdm is much
better than reisub.

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On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 03:09:34AM -0500, Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:28:24 -0500, Tom H wrote:
> >>
> >> The first is to kill X and it can be re-enabled through the GUI or the
> >> CLI. It's probably been disabled in default X installs to prevent anyone
> >> from using it by mistake.
> >
> > Well, my question remains: *REISUB is overkill. *Isn't there anything
> > less drastic which works by default?
>
> What's so difficult about re-enabling ctrl-alt-backspace?

Precognition: you realize you needed to do that when X actually freezes,
when it's too late.

> Switching to another vt and kiling X orstopping/killing gdm is much
> better than reisub.

Provided that you can switch to another vt (KMS helps here a lot).

ssh is also a useful alternative (if you have a network and a second
computer).

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On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius@pov.lt> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 03:09:34AM -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Switching to another vt and kiling X orstopping/killing gdm is much
>> better than reisub.
>
> Provided that you can switch to another vt (KMS helps here a lot).

Of course

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