From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MopNU-0003Dz-6M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:08:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24081E077D; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A301E077D for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Sep 2009 02:08:40 -0000 Received: from p54850D37.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.13.55] by mail.gmx.net (mp005) with SMTP; 19 Sep 2009 04:08:40 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/kjQ9lJ8XksR4rv7UGtMJ60et2Dis4ouQRqDq+Vh ClOwyk4rHR7oc/ Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:08:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:08:40 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed? Message-ID: <20090919020840.GB5295@solfire> References: <20090919013959.GA5295@solfire> <4AB43A71.5080805@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AB43A71.5080805@gmail.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.6 X-Archives-Salt: 50a28aad-98e9-454e-be8d-945c512928c1 X-Archives-Hash: 161a74fa29fe76728b65a51c4e5e3df8 > cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during > that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade. > > > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The > > usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly > > Broken By ${DEITY} - this tagline picker is spooky at times :-O > > -- Neil Bothwick > > I tried this once when I was unable to get my keyboard to respond to > anything else. I made it through the first three or four and was > returned to a console with a working keyboard. Since you are shutting > down, you may want to go through them all to be safe. I think the last > one does a reboot. > > Hope that helps. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Hi Dale, thanks a lot for your help!!! :) This will help to bring donw the machine in an more cleaner way as simply pressing the power switch ;-) But: How can I figure out, what hangs the shutdown process itsself? Keep hacking! mcc --- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.