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 1MopCI-0001O6-1c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:57:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B3B7E0698; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:57:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f196.google.com (mail-yw0-f196.google.com [209.85.211.196]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57857E0698 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:57:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh34 with SMTP id 34so2022094ywh.10 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:57:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SNeqniU1Pm9fY/aZ2+whyhWVYddu2U4IUbHpxLIO2bM=; b=cxru91lFF+D0yIyf2sq8OyFQnW2HBIOYq8RjlW4wV04b+/46KanwNOSeZtohjVO4Uy 34V5Kdm0R+fXtE3xI2JfiwBflV4VQVH7HWQ1pY8/ZEvsRHzEnslpqexeUZWsUtd29HQx YlgfkLt8n+tyb26j3oFjgt1yZ0QtljGVIc/GY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BOJPwcBW5+188DMpiLXKokrrgC5u4t8nlSw0pqeFH5sXTxvsuCDCibz940zME6IW0f L+g9yPYBjXoJHPQ6XNeRGqDSSSye++mTAAZVZPBHEfCePHxBw5B/mXLN2wDfcndWf9hW BxX5O862Nf0PfQpBO7o6CUZKvzt+s6kfRND1A= Received: by 10.90.127.20 with SMTP id z20mr1480200agc.118.1253325428035; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:57:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-19-156-213.jan.bellsouth.net [68.19.156.213]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 1sm902673agb.48.2009.09.18.18.57.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AB43A71.5080805@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:57:05 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090905 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed? References: <20090919013959.GA5295@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20090919013959.GA5295@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2e052c82-f82c-48e2-bea8-6f70b8a9f325 X-Archives-Hash: e860bdc4e67a2e5b22597c2e30c90e08 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 :-) :-)