[systemd-devel] CAD often useless

[Felix Miata]

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek composed on 2015-04-15 18:11 (UTC):

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 13:31:38 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

>> This isn't the first time or the only system. This particular one is an old
>> Athlon booted to F22 just updated last night. In order to try some follow-up
>> on a bug, I booted with drm.debug=14 log_buf_len=16M on cmdline. Somehow
>> after exiting IceWM back into KDM, the system quit responding. After some
>> waiting, I was switched to a tty full of systemd-journal failed to write
>> readonly filesystem messages. How the system got / into a readonly state I
>> have no idea, but my complaint is $SUBJECT, the time it takes, or the
>> complete failure, trying to reboot when there is a problem, often seeing
>> failed to store sound card state or failing boot *start* jobs. Why has
>> rebooting to get out of trouble gotten to be so nearly impossible?

> Did you try to press CAD more than 7 times within 2s? This should
> result in immedate reboot.

My fingers and keyboards are old. I just hold CAD down until reboot proceeds,
or not. All that have repeat and delay configurable in BIOS are set to 20 cps
& 250 delay. KDE I always set to same.
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