killall shenanigans
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Mar 15, 2026556 viewsConfidence Score0%
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So I was sitting around wondering what would happen if I typed: ...aaaaaand now the OS will not load. How do I fix this without just doing a reinstall? I'm not super worried about this or anything, it was a test box and I knew this would crash the system but I didn't realize it would prevent it fro…
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sudo killall -u root
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Fix for: killall shenanigans
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next time, when you killed everything (and are sitting in front of the physical box), hold the Alt and SysRQ (PrintScreen) keys, and type U S B. That means, Unmount, Sync and reBoot. That will at least make sure that unflushed changes in the filesys…
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