Emergency exit from X to tty1

[Dave Germiquet]

On a side note though:


Aren't most systems if you press the power button the unix system
automatically goes into shutdown mode?

Doesn't that disable that portion?

On Dec 19, 2007 6:51 PM, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'll try that out sometime. I've had numerous times where I've had to
> reboot because my X hung :(
>
>
>
> On Dec 19, 2007 6:14 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >   Here's a useful hint I picked up on the Gentoo mailing list.  This is
> > for those occasions when you get stuck in X, with X hogging the
> > keyboard, and refusing to let you exit to textmode.  With a bit of
> > setup, you can use the big "Power" button (YES!!! the "ON/OFF" button)
> > to force a jump to textmode tty1.  Here are the steps...
> >
> > as root
> > cd /usr/src/linux
> > make menuconfig
> >   Power management options (ACPI, APM)  --->
> >     [*] Power Management support
> >         ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support
> >           [*] ACPI Support
> >           <*>   Button
> >
> > Compile and re-boot into new kernel
> >
> > emerge acpi
> > (That's for Gentoo; other distros use apt-get/yum/rpm/whatever)
> >
> > change the uncommented lines in /etc/acpi/events/default to read
> > event=.*
> > action=chvt 1
> >
> > execute the two commands...
> > /etc/init.d/acpid start     (to start acpid now)
> > rc-update add acpid default (to automatically start acpid at future bootups)
> >
> >   Notes:
> >   - When testing, I suggest executing "sync" as a precaution, just
> >     before pressing the "big" power button.
> >
> >   - PCs also have a smaller power button which is hard-wired to shutdown
> >     or re-boot.  Do *NOT* press that button.
> >
> >   - After editing /etc/acpi/events/default run the command
> > /etc/init.d/acpid restart
> >     to force acpid to read in the new config
> >
> >   It was scarey at first, pressing the power button.  Just like the
> > feeling I had a dozen years ago when I first pressed {CTL-ALT-DEL} in
> > Windows95, not to reboot but to bring up the task manager.
> >
> > --
> > Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>
> > I'm not repeating myself
> > I'm an X Window user...  I'm an ex-Windows-user
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