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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>
>   
>> covici@ccs.covici.com <covici@ccs.covici.com> [09-09-19 15:19]:
>>     
>> 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.
>>
>>     
> I don't have such a file, or as far as I know, such a package.  My
> shutdown does not hang, it just says no more processes left at this run
> level and sits there forever and will not restart the system.
>
>   

Has the OP checked his inittab file?  I ran into something like this
once a long time ago and I had to replace the inittab file since some of
it was gone.  That file belongs to sysvinit so it may be worth
re-emerging that to see if helps. 

I can post mine if you want something to compare to.  Off list of
course.  Then again, it may not be to big.

Dale

:-)  :-)