Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

[Colombetti Marco <marco.colombetti@tele2.it>]

On Wednesday 03 June 2009 03:01:57 John covici wrote:
> on Tuesday 06/02/2009 James Ausmus(james.ausmus@gmail.com) wrote
>
>  > 2009/6/2 John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
>  >
>  > > on Tuesday 06/02/2009 Sebastian G nther(samson@guenther-roetgen.de)
>  > > wrote
>  > >
>  > >  > * John covici (covici@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]:
>  > >  > > Hi.  I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, however when I
>  > >  > > shutdown my system with something like shutdown -r now -- it gets
>  > >  > > into a state where it says
>  > >  > > init: no more processes in this run level, but it never will
>  > >  > > restart or shutdown if I use -h.  How in the heck do I even debug
>  > >  > > such a thing or fix?
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > > Thanks in advance for any good ideas.
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Did you enable ACPI in your kernel configuration?
>  > >
>  > > Yep.
>  >
>  > Make sure
>  > CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON
>  > is enabled in your kernel config (for menuconfig, under Power Management
>  > & ACPI -> ACPI Support -> Button) - without this, Linux can't
>  > auto-shut-off your system.
>
> Its a module, not built-in.  But even shutdown -r now does not work as
>  I get the message mentioned above and the computer hangs there
>  forever.

I have a similar issue on my laptop after upgrading to the kernel 2.6.29.
The alsasound service wont stop.... i have to unload the snd_hda_intel module 
first (it is an alsa related issue).
If it is the same problem you could add "modprobe -r snd_hda_intel" 
in /etc/conf.d/local.stop or /etc/conf.d/local.

Ciao