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Two panel meme.

Top panel: Woman in the front seat of a car screaming at a child in the rear seat. She’s saying “Why can’t you just shutdown?”

Bottom panel: A child screaming “A stop job is running for Session c2 of user … (1:30 / no limit)”

  • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
    10·
    19 hours ago

    Used it a few times now, so much better than holding the power button.

    For users that are not aware: alt+print screen then one at a time with a few seconds inbetween press the keys above, switch the O for a B to reboot instead of shutting down

    • otacon239@lemmy.world
      18·
      19 hours ago

      When I first used this trick, they sent me my black hoodie and green text projector in the mail as a prize.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      This sounds a lot more difficult than just holding the power button for a few seconds. How is it better?

      (Though I guess it could be beneficial for some laptops that don’t have a traditional power button.)

      • volore@scribe.disroot.org
        2·
        32 minutes ago

        REISUB basically does the same thing but slightly more gracefully. It will still reboot through basically any lockup (I have yet to encounter one it didn’t work on), but it gives your machine the chance to settle some things before cutting the power.

        If a Linux machine locks up or freezes completely, use REISUB to restart it more gently than pushing the Power Button.

        Hold down Alt and the SysReq (Print Screen) keys, and then type R E I S U B, with 2-3 second delays between the key presses to give the commands a better chance to complete.

        R: Switch the keyboard from raw mode to XLATE mode
        E: Send the SIGTERM signal to all processes except init
        I: Send the SIGKILL signal to all processes except init
        S: Sync all mounted filesystems
        U: Remount all mounted filesystems in read-only mode
        B: Immediately reboot the system, without unmounting partitions or syncing

        source

        I suppose if you wanted to be extra quick and liked living dangerously you could just do alt + sysrq + R + B (I’m assuming switching the keyboard mode is necessary for getting the other commands to work during a complete lockup, but I could be wrong, you might only need B). But I wouldn’t recommend it, REISUB is plenty fast for me.

        There are other commands too, like alt + sysrq + F to summon the OOM killer.

        Lastly, and perhaps most critically, it also feels way cooler than just holding a single button. Comme ça: