How do I turn off a hung laptop?

Christoph Bier christoph.bier at web.de
Tue Apr 27 14:20:37 UTC 2010


Laura Conrad schrieb am 27.04.2010 16:14:

> Does anyone know anything good to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work,
> and CTRL-ALT-F<n> doesn't get to a terminal, and the power switch
> doesn't do anything?  I've been pulling out the power cord and taking
> out the battery, and then the power switch turns things on, but there
> must be an easier way.

First Google hit (there may be better resources for this but I only
bookmarked the german Ubuntu wiki for Magic SysRQ):
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-use-magic-system-request-keys-in-ubuntu-linux.html

Best
Christoph
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