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

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

2009/6/3 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.

Same problem, but with xorg drivers (radeon) on a stable system.  If I
exit xorg and then issue shutdown from console it works fine.

See previous thread at:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/linux.gentoo.user/browse_thread/thread/593050017e77fbd3?hl=en#

-- 
Regards,
Mick