On Thu, 2023-07-13 at 14:43 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
I've been trying to develop strategies for dealing with a
suddenly
unresponsive system. One thing that looks promising is the "magic
sysrq
key". However a far as I can tell, that only works in the console,
which makes it unavailable in my situation, where Alt+F1 does not
work
either.
Is there an alternative with equivalent functionality?
Maybe explain what your situation is? Alt F1 is typically a GUI-level
function. SysRq is much lower level and is intercepted directly by the
kernel, when not even a Shell might be running.
poc