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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:42:09
Message-Id: 4AB444FB.50304@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed? by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 >> cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during
3 >> that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade.
4 >>
5 >>
6 >>> Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The
7 >>> usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly
8 >>> Broken By ${DEITY} - this tagline picker is spooky at times :-O
9 >>> -- Neil Bothwick
10 >>>
11 >> I tried this once when I was unable to get my keyboard to respond to
12 >> anything else. I made it through the first three or four and was
13 >> returned to a console with a working keyboard. Since you are shutting
14 >> down, you may want to go through them all to be safe. I think the last
15 >> one does a reboot.
16 >>
17 >> Hope that helps.
18 >>
19 >> Dale
20 >>
21 >> :-) :-)
22 >>
23 >
24 >
25 > Hi Dale,
26 >
27 > thanks a lot for your help!!! :)
28 >
29 > This will help to bring donw the machine in an more
30 > cleaner way as simply pressing the power switch ;-)
31 >
32 > But:
33 > How can I figure out, what hangs the shutdown process itsself?
34 >
35 > Keep hacking!
36 > mcc
37 >
38 > ---
39 > Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments
40 > unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text.
41 > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
42 > In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
43 >
44 >
45 >
46 >
47
48 That will be answered by another guru who knows what to ask. I have
49 never had mine to hang like that so I have no idea. Someone will be
50 along soon and help that knows how to figure this out or has ran into
51 this before.
52
53 Dale
54
55 :-) :-)