Re: GNOME 3.1.90 beta released!

[Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek gentoo org>]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Germán Póo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 00:18 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> On my laptop, I encounter enough hard lockups while testing software
>> that the long-press behaviour of the power button is essential for me.
>> I don't want to have to flip my machine over and take out the battery
>> everytime. For all I know, doing that repeatedly might even damage the
>> device.
>
> In the worst case, you still can use the Magic SysRq key.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
>

They often don't work in case of kernel lockups, or Xorg problems
(which often lockup the kernel). They've worked maybe half the time
I've had a system lockup.

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team