Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I am updateing my Gentoo on a dialy basis.
>  Since two days the shutdown process of the systems 
>  hangs around "Bringing down net.lo".
>  Booting the PC is not a problem -- except the
>  "replaying transactions" (resierfs).
>
>  I fear to finally damage the filesystem while trying
>  to figure out, why the shutdown process does not
>  succeed.
>
>  How can I proceed?
>  What is suspicous for hanging the shutdown process?
>  Every help is very welcome !  :)
>
>  Thank you very much in advance!
>  Keep hacking!
>  mcc
>
>   

I don't know about the reason it hangs but this may help get you a
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

:-) :-)