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meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> covici@××××××××××.com <covici@××××××××××.com> [09-09-19 15:19]: |
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> > Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> > > > > cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during |
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> > > > > that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade. |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The |
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> > > > > > usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly |
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> > > > > > Broken By ${DEITY} - this tagline picker is spooky at times :-O |
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> > > > > > -- Neil Bothwick |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > I tried this once when I was unable to get my keyboard to respond to |
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> > > > > anything else. I made it through the first three or four and was |
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> > > > > returned to a console with a working keyboard. Since you are shutting |
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> > > > > down, you may want to go through them all to be safe. I think the last |
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> > > > > one does a reboot. |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > Hope that helps. |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > Dale |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > :-) :-) |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Hi Dale, |
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> > > > |
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> > > > thanks a lot for your help!!! :) |
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> > > > |
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> > > > This will help to bring donw the machine in an more |
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> > > > cleaner way as simply pressing the power switch ;-) |
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> > > > |
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> > > > But: |
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> > > > How can I figure out, what hangs the shutdown process itsself? |
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> > > Last time I came across a problem like this I had forgotten to select the |
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> > > right chipset under Graphics support/AGP Support/ in the kernel. So I |
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> > > suggest you revisit your kernel and xorg drivers setups for your card. |
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> > > -- |
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> > Hi. I have a somewhat similar problem, when I shutdown it goes all the |
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> > way to the end, but instead of shutting down, it says |
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> > init: nomore processes left in this runlevel. This is fine if I am |
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> > here, but from a remote location it would not work, so how can I figure |
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> > out why this is happening? I think this started when I went to |
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> > baselayout 2, but not certain of that. |
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> I solved the problem: |
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> /etc/slim.conf has the |
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> daemon = no |
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> flag, so the boot process seems optically ok but hangs right |
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> after slim hast started. |
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> Shutting down the system tries to stop services/processes/action, |
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> which never has been started...which fails in a hang. |
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> I dont know exactly...but...if that flag is the default configuration |
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> when installing slim I would suggest to change it to |
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> daemon = yes |
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> to prevent users like me to spend the weekend in searching for a |
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> problem in the shutdown process. |
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I don't have such a file, or as far as I know, such a package. My |
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shutdown does not hang, it just says no more processes left at this run |
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level and sits there forever and will not restart the system. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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