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From: Pupino <pupinux@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:12:03
Message-Id: dad98e440909190411g7c0de602ne6fe5e9f8c07a4de@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed? by Mick
1 2009/9/19 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>:
2 > On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3 >> > cleaner shutdown.  This is taken from a email that was sent to me during
4 >> > that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade.
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 >> Hi Dale,
24 >>
25 >> thanks a lot for your help!!!  :)
26 >>
27 >> This will help to bring donw the machine in an more
28 >> cleaner way as simply pressing the power switch ;-)
29 >>
30 >> But:
31 >> How can I figure out, what hangs the shutdown process itsself?
32 >
33 > Last time I came across a problem like this I had forgotten to select the
34 > right chipset under Graphics support/AGP Support/ in the kernel.  So I
35 > suggest you revisit your kernel and xorg drivers setups for your card.
36 > --
37 > Regards,
38 > Mick
39 >
40
41 Hi,
42 I got a similar problem too once... and what was making the system
43 hang wasn't the last shutting down thing listed, but the one just
44 after (so i don't think it's net.lo fault in your case). So i suggest
45 to have a look at which services are started at boot, but aren't
46 shutted down. Turning off parallel boot could help you find out the
47 responsible service.
48 In my case it was a misconfiguration of the alsa module, which
49 shouldn't be unloaded at shotdown time...
50 HTH
51 Davide

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