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 1MpPCO-0004WM-9v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:23:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87082E09B5; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C125E09B5 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:23:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2009 16:23:37 -0000 Received: from p5485207E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.32.126] by mail.gmx.net (mp071) with SMTP; 20 Sep 2009 18:23:37 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18/zdoBPE0/YVopbd1c3AZj3P920tn6mnbj23i1wg 2nMd3CTA/dRZjF Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:23:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:23:31 +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: <20090920162331.GD5807@solfire> References: <20090919013959.GA5295@solfire> <4AB43A71.5080805@gmail.com> <20090919020840.GB5295@solfire> <200909191028.14764.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <5858.1253366175@ccs.covici.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: <5858.1253366175@ccs.covici.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.54 X-Archives-Salt: bd9901ad-cf13-48ce-9b15-f617cb568406 X-Archives-Hash: b21e0d07003603c31912f1789f47035c covici@ccs.covici.com [09-09-19 15:19]: > Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > > > 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? > > > > Last time I came across a problem like this I had forgotten to select the > > right chipset under Graphics support/AGP Support/ in the kernel. So I > > suggest you revisit your kernel and xorg drivers setups for your card. > > -- > Hi. I have a somewhat similar problem, when I shutdown it goes all the > way to the end, but instead of shutting down, it says > init: nomore processes left in this runlevel. This is fine if I am > here, but from a remote location it would not work, so how can I figure > out why this is happening? I think this started when I went to > baselayout 2, but not certain of that. > I solved the problem: /etc/slim.conf has the daemon = no flag, so the boot process seems optically ok but hangs right after slim hast started. Shutting down the system tries to stop services/processes/action, which never has been started...which fails in a hang. I dont know exactly...but...if that flag is the default configuration when installing slim I would suggest to change it to daemon = yes to prevent users like me to spend the weekend in searching for a problem in the shutdown process. > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici > covici@ccs.covici.com Life is worth more than a penny... Meino Christian Cramer Meino.Cramer@gmx.de ;) -- 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.