[systemd-devel] CAD often useless

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 15.04.15 14:48, Felix Miata (mrmazda at earthlink.net) wrote:

> 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. 

Linux does not use the hardware typematic rate anymore, since about 10
years. It's irrelevant what you configure there.

> KDE I always set to same.

But you are using IceWM you said.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat