Today I just learned that systemctl --force --force reboot is a command. We had a computer we remotely connected to which got permission errors and bus errors when we tried to reboot it normally. For some reason the mentioned command did actually manage to shutdown the computer bit did not manage to reboot it correctly.

I wonder what the double --force flag actually accomplishes and what possibly could hinder a regular reboot in this scenario.

  • Epzillon@lemmy.mlOP
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    15 days ago

    I would use the man pages but my working laptop uses Windows and since the system died i dont have any way to check them until I get home.

    Thank you a lot for the answer though, that does explain a lot!

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        man7 and such are better. This runs google analytics, and cannot work when fetch requests are disabled (also suitable for sending back anything), let alone disabling scripts