Is there an easy way to reboot the system without have to power down?

olavaunet

Not sure if there is something I need to fix on my end or if this is a buggy kinda thing. But from time to time things kinda lock up on me, and the cursor either stops moving entirely, or it sorta slowly drags in one direction on its own. Wondering if there is a key binding I could use. If not, it's not the end of the world, cuz the computer boots incredibly fast compared to using Windows.

johano

olavaunet, try this

Take control of keyboard back from X:
Hold Alt + SysRq then these keys in sequence r e i n s u b to safely reboot
More info here

downhill

olavaunet Open up a terminal and type sudo systemctl reboot.

synth-ruiner

that kinda sounds like thrashing (running out of RAM) - keep an eye on your usage and see if you have swap enabled

olavaunet

synth-ruiner I think there's a very good chance you're right. Now that I'm keeping eye on it, I've noticed a lot of RAM usage. It's fairly high with just a few things open, but I'm fairly certain that I've been crashing it from Firefox. I have a bad habit of having tons of tabs open since I can get away with that on my Windows desktop cuz it's has 32gb of ram. I have Solus running on a laptop with only 8gb of ram. The CPU is hardly being used so the ram looks like quite the bottleneck.

Dentraq

johano Yeah, the «magic keys»... but before try to use it, on Solus you need to enable the full potential of SysRq.
Check this: documentation page on kernel.org and page on ArchWiki.
If this doesn't work for you (like in my case) — there is «silver bullet» solution: add the sysrq_always_enabled option in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT section on /etc/default/grub. Don't forget to run sudo update-grub after changing GRUB config!

elfprince

olavaunet I have around 15 tabs open daily on my Firefox. Budgie here on Solus with 8G RAM. Ram usage is always around 3.7G on average, so well under 50%. 😀

HPF-84E

In my case, the query in the console returns the value 16 which, according to the documentation, allows only one sync to the hard disk.
cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

The sync is probably not shown at all and so you don't get that something happens.

To get all functions the value 1 must be entered with
echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.

After that SYSRQ works immediately by typing Alt+Print+R+E+I+S+U+B for me.

But the value 1 or other values must be entered before each time or written permanently into a configfile.

HPF-84E

If you don't have a dualboot with Grub you have to add a kernel parameter to make sysrq permanent.

echo 'sysrq_always_enabled=1' | sudo tee /etc/kernel/cmdline
sudo clr-boot-manager update
After a reboot sysrq is permanently available with the value 1.
But the query with 'cat /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq' still shows a value of 16. That surprises me.
Please forget the reference to a config in my previous post because it comes from an UbuntuWiki and does not work.

I also experimented a bit and found out that the word REISK syncs the desktop but the network manager doesn't start anymore.

With K you can restart the X-Server without sync.

For the problem with a full ram a F would probably be enough to kill the service with the highest ram load. This is probably the best way to find out which process is causing the problem.