[gentoo-user] Diskless client will not shutdown.

[gentoo-user] Diskless client will not shutdown.

[Harley Peters]

I am running a diskless Mythtv frontend client.
Everything is working great accept it will not shutdown.
It goes through all the steps of shutting down successfully including
remounting any remaining file systems read only.
But it never issues the power down command.
Yes acpi is setup correctly.
The runlevels look the same as all the other machines I have.
Anybody have any idea what actually issues the power down command or
where to even start looking ?

emerge --info:

Portage 2.2_rc33 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.3.3,
glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.30 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname:
Linux-2.6.30-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_3600+-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:00:15 +0000 ccache version 2.4
[disabled] app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39 dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r2,
2.6.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.3-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r3
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.0
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going --jobs=4 --load-average=6"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch
preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans
userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/
ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/  http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/
ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j4 -l4.50"
PKGDIR="/usr/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm" PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.100/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X acl
alsa amd64 bzip2 caps cli cracklib crypt custom-cflags custom-cxxflags
dbus dri gdbm gif gpm hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kerberos midi mmx
mmxext mng mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre
perl pppd python qt3support readline reflection sdl session spl sse
sse2 ssl ssse3 sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode vdpau xinerama
xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym
copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa
lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share
shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias
authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav
dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter
file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime
mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id
userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev
keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk
hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIRC_DEVICES="iguanaIR"
USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS,
INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Re: [gentoo-user] Diskless client will not shutdown.

[Keith Dart]

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:31:45 -0500
Harley Peters <harley@thepetersclan.net> wrote:

> But it never issues the power down command.
> Yes acpi is setup correctly.

I've seen buggy motherboards and/or bioses behave this way. But check
your kernel config. Might also try some different BIOS settings and see
if that helps.





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Re: [gentoo-user] Diskless client will not shutdown.

[Harley Peters]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:47:43 -0700
Keith Dart <keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:31:45 -0500
> Harley Peters <harley@thepetersclan.net> wrote:
> 
> > But it never issues the power down command.
> > Yes acpi is setup correctly.
> 
> I've seen buggy motherboards and/or bioses behave this way. But check
> your kernel config. Might also try some different BIOS settings and
> see if that helps.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Not much to try in the bios. The kernel config is correct and I have
tried about every combination possible just for kicks.
It use to work with a hard disk all the time. When I first changed it
to diskless it worked when it felt like it. But now it never works
doesn't even seem to try.
Could be the kernel I changed to 2.6.30.1 not to long ago but I need
that version so can't go back.

Re: [gentoo-user] Diskless client will not shutdown.

[Harley Peters]

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:31:45 -0500
Harley Peters <harley@thepetersclan.net> wrote:

> I am running a diskless Mythtv frontend client.
> Everything is working great accept it will not shutdown.
> It goes through all the steps of shutting down successfully including
> remounting any remaining file systems read only.
> But it never issues the power down command.
> Yes acpi is setup correctly.
> The runlevels look the same as all the other machines I have.
> Anybody have any idea what actually issues the power down command or
> where to even start looking ?
> 
> emerge --info:
> 
> Portage 2.2_rc33 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.3.3,
> glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.30 x86_64)
> =================================================================
> System uname:
> Linux-2.6.30-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_3600+-with-gentoo-2.0.1
> Timestamp of tree: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:00:15 +0000 ccache version 2.4
> [disabled] app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39 dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r2,
> 2.6.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
> dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
> dev-util/cmake:      2.6.3-r1
> sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
> sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r3
> sys-apps/sandbox:    2.0
> sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
> sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
> sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
> sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
> sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
> virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
> CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe"
> CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
> CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
> CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -msse3 -pipe"
> DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles"
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going --jobs=4 --load-average=6"
> FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch
> preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans
> userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/
> ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/  http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/
> ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j4 -l4.50"
> PKGDIR="/usr/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
> --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180
> --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm" PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
> SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.100/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X acl
> alsa amd64 bzip2 caps cli cracklib crypt custom-cflags custom-cxxflags
> dbus dri gdbm gif gpm hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kerberos midi mmx
> mmxext mng mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre
> perl pppd python qt3support readline reflection sdl session spl sse
> sse2 ssl ssse3 sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode vdpau xinerama
> xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym
> copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa
> lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share
> shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias
> authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
> authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav
> dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter
> file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime
> mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id
> userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev
> keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633
> glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIRC_DEVICES="iguanaIR"
> USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS,
> INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
> PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
> 

Just in case anybody else runs into this the problem is in /etc/inittab
The following line should be changed:

l0s:0:wait:/sbin/halt -dhip

to this:

l0s:0:wait:/sbin/halt -dhp

The -i halt option turns off all network interfaces which is bad on a
diskless client.

Harley