no SysRq key

[Ben Duncan]

See if /etc/inittab looks has this entry in it:

# What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t5 -r now


Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Saturday 12 August 2006 15:56, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>
>>>I'm using the same keyboard.
>>>
>>>What makes you think that you need to set keycodes?  If it doesn't work,
>>>you
>>
>>The output of "showkey -s", which is not what it should be (as far as I
>>understood it, of course).
>>
>>
>>>might look for other places where the keys get interecepted.
>>
>>Can they get intercepted somewhere? I mean, the whole idea is not that
>>pressing SysRq sends a signal directly to the kernel, even if everything
>>else is frozen?
> 
> 
> Well let me tell you, it works here.....   I was just using showkey to try and 
> get you the scancodes I am seeing, and I went through the sequence:
> 
> alt-sysrq-s
> alt-sysrq-u
> alt-sysrq-b
> 
> and even with showkey looking at the sequences, I got a reboot out of it.
> 
> I assume you are using the above sequence.  Should work.
> 
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