[systemd-devel] CAD often useless

[Felix Miata]

Lennart Poettering composed on 2015-04-16 12:16 (UTC+0200):

> Felix Miata 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.

I don't normally count, but what I usually do is just hold the three keys
down until the reboot process becomes apparent.

>> 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.

My systems are all multiboot. Most have floppy drives and will boot DOS.

>> KDE I always set to same.

> But you are using IceWM you said.

I only ever use IceWM to discover whether DE startup trouble is in Xorg or in K*.
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