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colechristensen on March 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux gets frozen, what do you do?

Something very important to note which is missing in the comments and the original article: waiting!

Each one of these commands (r, e, i, s, u) takes or can take a few seconds to complete successfully, so let them do their thing.

ttsiodras on March 16, 2014 [–]

Indeed!

In particular, if you have HD-activity LEDs, watch and wait until they stop blinking - after the 's' (sync) key.

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