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 1Mopto-0008AD-VS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:42:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A258E0743; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56EB6E0743 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so1799645yxe.32 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:42:07 -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=o9LXEDqu/wKNAAG/hHO3faljjerpRwV3HdtPe/WnYDs=; b=g5nj7k2pD5tA+EVPG9VfOKCPxG5iJkhWvzv4zydtsvB3SKX52SlHZbW2pF8bCztbBq LiAqvdjhPZHBe8Xm2gkr1x8CBKW7QiEXuDn+wPc6Mk3dpo6c7klRkciSI/0hy/tjdOTq mmBzLaV2CnZ4Huja1jyaCrdR+Ct5DO1Wfmsog= 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=IFBAfgHdh+s12ZopVBJhsOtsO3npEs4DUotNg5JDEHz0BEafL6lKOszBPoRphfgti2 wuvaEL1Z2uEprasC+5EWMTMAS0eXyxAet/D8RWGm9/Nr49781MfRVxnDT4MUkepRJD2u LG1AAwA2indwqjppaIOp06k7gEXyrRzzwdi+M= Received: by 10.91.148.16 with SMTP id a16mr1500583ago.119.1253328127072; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:42:07 -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 18sm617565agb.45.2009.09.18.19.42.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AB444FB.50304@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:42:03 -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> <4AB43A71.5080805@gmail.com> <20090919020840.GB5295@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20090919020840.GB5295@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0f50e4af-a6cb-4039-945e-81bed15f8d78 X-Archives-Hash: 2b420e58eeb5356424d3914b7937aad9 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? > > 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. > > > > That will be answered by another guru who knows what to ask. I have never had mine to hang like that so I have no idea. Someone will be along soon and help that knows how to figure this out or has ran into this before. Dale :-) :-)