CTRL/ALT/BKSPACE doesn't restart SoaS (system crash)

[Art Hunkins]

CTRL/ALT/BKSPACE doesn't restart SoaS, as it does the XO-1. The system freezes instead. Since with 0.86 the restart option no longer appears in the user drop-down menu, developers lack a restart option.

Such an option is particularly useful on SoaS when a quick boot into an alternate OS (such as Windows) is desired.

(Alternately, this "keyboard shortcut" should be completely disabled, as currently it only results in a crash.)

[Thomas C Gilliard (satellit-)]

Try using control panel: I move slider for frame slightly and get a fast
restart

Art Hunkins wrote:
> <pre wrap>Public bug reported:
>
> CTRL/ALT/BKSPACE doesn't restart SoaS, as it does the XO-1. The system
> freezes instead. Since with 0.86 the restart option no longer appears in
> the user drop-down menu, developers lack a restart option.
>
>
> Such an option is particularly useful on SoaS when a quick boot into
> an alternate OS (such as Windows) is desired.
>
>
> (Alternately, this "keyboard shortcut" should be completely disabled,
> as currently it only results in a crash.)
>
> ** Affects: soas
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> </pre></body>
> </html>
> </html>

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

CTRL+ALT+BKSP would only restart the graphical X11 environment, not the entire system. This is useful for reinstalling activities, but wouldn't help when booting into Windows.

[Sebastian Dziallas (sdziallas)]

Luke is right, it would only restart the X server. However, from what I know, this feature has been disabled upstream (I'm not aware of the exact reason, though), which is why Fedora has incorporated this change, too. So is the keyboard shortcut now really causing a crash or just not changing anything? I agree, if there's a crash, we need to work out what's wrong.

[Art Hunkins (abhunkin)]

Sebastian,

The keyboard shortcut is really causing a crash.

The screen goes blank like it is trying to shut down and either:
1) remains blank indefinitely;
2) as above, except that the following is displayed:
Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions
nouveau 0000:00:0d.0: nouveau_fifo_free: freeing fifo 0

followed by a single blinking dot, which when you press SPACE or ENTER, adds
successive dots (the last blinking).

HTH,

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Dziallas" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 8:46 AM
Subject: [Bug 450689] Re: CTRL/ALT/BKSPACE doesn't restart SoaS (system
crash)

Luke is right, it would only restart the X server. However, from what I
know, this feature has been disabled upstream (I'm not aware of the
exact reason, though), which is why Fedora has incorporated this change,
too. So is the keyboard shortcut now really causing a crash or just not
changing anything? I agree, if there's a crash, we need to work out
what's wrong.

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CTRL/ALT/BKSPACE doesn't restart SoaS (system crash)
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Status in Sugar on a Stick: New

Bug description:
CTRL/ALT/BKSPACE doesn't restart SoaS, as it does the XO-1. The system
freezes instead. Since with 0.86 the restart option no longer appears in the
user drop-down menu, developers lack a restart option.

Such an option is particularly useful on SoaS when a quick boot into an
alternate OS (such as Windows) is desired.

(Alternately, this "keyboard shortcut" should be completely disabled, as
currently it only results in a crash.)

[mikus (mikus)]

On XO-1 with soas04xo build, ctrl-alt-erase is ignored. I have to resort to the bypass described in comment "#1" to restart X (i.e., to restart Sugar).

[MartinDengler (mtd)]

I heard a rumour that the absence of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace-restarts-X is
a F12 feature.

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 07:12:56PM -0000, mikus wrote:
> On XO-1 with soas04xo build, ctrl-alt-erase is ignored. I have to resort
> to the bypass described in comment "#1" to restart X (i.e., to restart
> Sugar).

[Sebastian Dziallas (sdziallas)]

Yeah, I noticed it was an upstream decision that was included in F11. So I don't think we should really diverge from it here. Here are some more information: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Alpha_release_notes#X_Server

[Art Hunkins (abhunkin)]

Well, this leaves us without a Restart option.

So again I propose that the Restart option be reclaimed as part of the user
dropdown menu.

As I mentioned, I use this feature *constantly* (with SoaS Strawberry), to
easily boot in and out of Windows. Otherwise, I'd have to completely shut
down.

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Dziallas" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 11:08 AM
Subject: [Bug 450689] Re: CTRL/ALT/BKSPACE doesn't restart SoaS (system
crash)

Yeah, I noticed it was an upstream decision that was included in F11. So
I don't think we should really diverge from it here. Here are some more
information:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Alpha_release_notes#X_Server

** Changed in: soas
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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CTRL/ALT/BKSPACE doesn't restart SoaS (system crash)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/450689
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of the bug.

Status in Sugar on a Stick: Won't Fix

Bug description:
CTRL/ALT/BKSPACE doesn't restart SoaS, as it does the XO-1. The system
freezes instead. Since with 0.86 the restart option no longer appears in the
user drop-down menu, developers lack a restart option.

Such an option is particularly useful on SoaS when a quick boot into an
alternate OS (such as Windows) is desired.

(Alternately, this "keyboard shortcut" should be completely disabled, as
currently it only results in a crash.)