Emergency exit from X to tty1

Thu Dec 20 16:23:03 UTC 2007

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 01:27:18AM -0500, Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> Does holding the power button for 4 seconds force a shutdown in Linux? 
> Will this hint change this?

Holding for 4 seconds forced a power off, not a shutdown.  Nothing
generally changes that, although I have seen BIOSes allow you to change
what holding for 4 seconds does.

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