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dargosch
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 Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 8:33 pm Post subject: CTRL-ALT-DEL equivalent on PPC?? |
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Hi all,
I've been using Linux for a while now, but am not that experienced with the PPC hardware and the interaction between it and Linux.
So, therefore I have to ask: is there an equivalent to the almighty three-finger-salute on this platform, or a suggestion how to emulate one.. it is really for the times when X still responds to keybord, but the GUI is f??ked..
Does anyone have any suggestions  |
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zojas
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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control-alt-backspace will kill the X session by default still, just like on x86. (on my ibook's keyboard, the backspace key is labelled 'delete' but it's really the backspace key).
you can also try control-alt-F1 to get to a console.
maybe fn-control-alt-backspace would invoke the 'shutdown' command?
anyway, check out /etc/inittab. towards the end is this:
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# What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now
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you'll want to investigate what 'ctrlaltdel' is mapped to.
and don't forget, if you're running an ssh server you can often log in remotely from another machine on the network even if the keyboard is non-responsive.
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sstacha
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 11:14 pm Post subject: ctl-alt-delete on mac |
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| I have just purchased a newer powerbook so I am new to ppc platform also. I don't know if this is a new feature or not but the ctl-cmd (apple key)-powerbtn does a warmboot for me. you might give it a shot. |
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dargosch
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 7:10 am Post subject: Re: ctl-alt-delete on mac |
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| sstacha wrote: | | I have just purchased a newer powerbook so I am new to ppc platform also. I don't know if this is a new feature or not but the ctl-cmd (apple key)-powerbtn does a warmboot for me. you might give it a shot. |
Yes, I have found that sequence. However, a warm reboot is not always what you what (even in the world of journaling fs's), since there are services sucha as database managers that I would be more comfortable shutting down the proper way. This is , I believe, done on 'shutdown' but not warm reboot..  |
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dargosch
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 7:15 am Post subject: |
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| zojas wrote: | control-alt-backspace will kill the X session by default still, just like on x86. (on my ibook's keyboard, the backspace key is labelled 'delete' but it's really the backspace key).
you can also try control-alt-F1 to get to a console.
maybe fn-control-alt-backspace would invoke the 'shutdown' command?
anyway, check out /etc/inittab. towards the end is this:
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# What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now
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you'll want to investigate what 'ctrlaltdel' is mapped to.
and don't forget, if you're running an ssh server you can often log in remotely from another machine on the network even if the keyboard is non-responsive. |
Thank you.. I'll try this. BTW, how do I investigate the mapping of ctrlaltdel? It's not in my console keymap file... |
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zojas
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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I found this in the man page for inittab:
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ctrlaltdel
The process will be executed when init receives the SIGINT sig-
nal. This means that someone on the system console has pressed
the CTRL-ALT-DEL key combination. Typically one wants to execute
some sort of shutdown either to get into single-user level or to
reboot the machine.
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so it's built into init itself. time to look at the source code? /sbin/init is part of baselayout (according to qpkg -f) so you might try extracting baselayout:
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5:47am0ocotillo#qpkg -I -v baselayout
sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.8-r1 *
5:47am0ocotillo#cd /usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout
5:47am0ocotillo#ebuild ./baselayout-1.8.6.8-r1.ebuild fetch unpack
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) sysvinit-2.84.tar.gz
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) sysvinit-2.84.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking sysvinit-2.84.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.8-r1/work
>>> Unpacking rc-scripts-1.4.3.8p1.tar.bz2
* Checking if we need to tweak CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK
>>> Source unpacked.
5:48am0ocotillo#cd /var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.8-r1/work/
5:48am0ocotillo#ls
rc-scripts-1.4.3.8p1/ sysvinit-2.84/
5:48am0ocotillo#cd sysvinit-2.84
5:48am0ocotillo#ls
COPYRIGHT README contrib/ doc/ man/ obsolete/ src/
5:48am0ocotillo#ls src
Makefile halt.c init.h last.c reboot.h sulogin.c
Makefile.orig hddown.c initreq.h mesg.c runlevel.c utmp.c
bootlogd.c ifdown.c initscript.sample* oldutmp.h set.h utmpdump.c
dowall.c init.c killall5.c paths.h shutdown.c wall.c
5:48am0ocotillo#cd src
5:48am0ocotillo#grep ctrlaltdel *.h *.c
init.c: { "ctrlaltdel", CTRLALTDEL },
init.c: /* Tell ctrlaltdel entry to start up */
5:48am0ocotillo#grep CTRLALTDEL *.h *.c
init.h:#define CTRLALTDEL 9
init.c: (i) == CTRLALTDEL)
init.c: { "ctrlaltdel", CTRLALTDEL },
init.c: case CTRLALTDEL:
init.c: if (ch->action == CTRLALTDEL)
5:48am0ocotillo#
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that was on my p3, you might want to try it on your system. maybe the 9 is a keycode?
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min.xu
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I just plugged in USB keyboard and ctrl-alt-del worked for me. |
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