Is it possible to enable the Magic SysRq Keys on Bazzite?
I recently experienced a full freeze of the OS (not even the mouse would move) and tried to use alt+printscreen+REISUB to get it to reboot. This did not work and it seems like the shortcuts don't work on Bazzite. Is there a way to get these shortcuts back in case a freeze occurs again?
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ctrl+alt+F2/3/4
switch ttls
only works if the compositor crashed though, but most of the time you get a freeze like that its probably the compositor
ujust get-logs to get logs, see what caused the crashIs it possible to see earlier logs? I went out and thus I can't view the logs of the session that crashed via that command anymore
yes
sudo journalctl --no-hostname -b -x
increase x until you find it
0 is current, -1 is last, -2 is the one before last, etcYes, you can enable it with sysctl before the crash
I'd have to grab the command
But reisub will disable file sync so you will lose the logs
The last few seconds
This is fine as long as crashes are as rare as they currently are, I'm just looking for a safe way to reboot in case it freezes
i didn't think of switching ttls, that would work too
if you can get into another tty you can see the logs immediately and probably
systemctl rebootyeah that's what i'll be doing if I can't figure out how to enable the magic keys
just remember to memorize the username
that I can manage
S in reisub is "sync"