suspend & resume

[Rik van Riel]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Russell Coker wrote:

> One annoying issue with using the power button to suspend is that there
> is no option if you really want to shut the machine down.

Agreed.

> There are a huge number of mistakes you can make in Linux sys-admin or 
> development work that make it impossible to login to a Linux machine and 
> require booting with init=/bin/bash for recovery.  It's really annoying to 
> have to unplug the laptop, turn it upside down, and remove the battery to 
> cause a reboot in such situations.

# echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger

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