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 1MpRQz-0003bt-4c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:46:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EC3DE0934; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:46:37 +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 6B1CAE08FA for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:46:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so2717565yxe.32 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:46:37 -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=AswbNEN3yYFkDIRLm25KUUwdnBIQ79Grg49TJNP/dOs=; b=wl78URMmVyiAxUIX+A9Dr+kSBo+v4qw4UTo+63FbaLNuPPSxUs0ily5rFh71xxvMp3 Q+EttcNEnrBjoOOv03OnzS79LYBsvwADOaV04MCUfayYmm7TZ40x9C8r8hWzWAHqAe2n lmD8K2+YmdpQohK51dPJmqkcBOc5BIkRuJZDA= 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=WvmaO1vARUtC95lGB7pYS2zqBzP7JNCyykqqMV8MPDh99MEafTcfVc2hjpHvGv1w+e VrFmw6WOrZG5/WQdoyXzmxaXdE7G3C3YbxNQ9fekjD47yrTWnr44fAKGZuQnI0EsZeyS oSWfph9GGcBwWNDeVcYJuAqHZ1B0GHxQdsDCQ= Received: by 10.101.90.4 with SMTP id s4mr3505118anl.159.1253472397149; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:46:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-144-216-98.jan.bellsouth.net [70.144.216.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm1717291yxe.8.2009.09.20.11.46.35 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AB67889.60306@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:46:33 -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> <200909191028.14764.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <5858.1253366175@ccs.covici.com> <20090920162331.GD5807@solfire> <26942.1253464941@ccs.covici.com> In-Reply-To: <26942.1253464941@ccs.covici.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f3ecb6d2-1283-425e-b95b-595a218c1ff1 X-Archives-Hash: 306e753eeba4a107b746fb58bec821e9 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > >> 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 :-) :-)