> On 4/27/05, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) scribbled:
> > > Whenever I type in "shutdown now," the kernel enters runlevel 1 and
> > > starts to shut down. All of these [ ok ] just fine:
> > >
> > > * Stopping local...
> > > * Stopping fcron...
> > > * Unmounting network filesystems...
> > > * Stopping syslog-ng...
> > > * Syncing hardware clock to system clock [Local Time]...
> > > * Bringing eth0 down...
> > > * Removing inet6 addresses...
> > > * eth0 inet6 del fe80::20e:2eff:fe0c:6041/64...
> > > * Stopping eth0...
> > > * Bringing lo down...
> > >
> > > But it just hangs on this one:
> > >
> > > * Saving random seed...
> >
> I am wondering if it isn't the random number generator that is causing the problem. Is ACPI and/or APM configured properly in your kernel? Did you recently add these? I think the problem is that the kernel is trying to signal shutdown on the machine, but it isn't configured right.
> I can Ctrl-C my way out of it and continue to work in Gentoo, but a
> software shutdown isn't possible. I just reboot, enter the BIOS and
> hold the switch. What can I do about this little bug? And is there
> even any purpose in loading and saving a random seed when random
> numbers are (AFAIK) seeded by the timer?
Check your ACPI and/or APM configuration. The thing that is bugging me here is that you can get out of it, which makes me think that ACPI is signaling the power supply to switch off, but it doesn't. Try "reboot" to see if that works. I had a problem where my machine wouldn't power off, but it would reboot, and it was just a kernel configuration problem.
> > Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) scribbled:
> > > Whenever I type in "shutdown now," the kernel enters runlevel 1 and
> > > starts to shut down. All of these [ ok ] just fine:
> > >
> > > * Stopping local...
> > > * Stopping fcron...
> > > * Unmounting network filesystems...
> > > * Stopping syslog-ng...
> > > * Syncing hardware clock to system clock [Local Time]...
> > > * Bringing eth0 down...
> > > * Removing inet6 addresses...
> > > * eth0 inet6 del fe80::20e:2eff:fe0c:6041/64...
> > > * Stopping eth0...
> > > * Bringing lo down...
> > >
> > > But it just hangs on this one:
> > >
> > > * Saving random seed...
> >
> I am wondering if it isn't the random number generator that is causing the problem. Is ACPI and/or APM configured properly in your kernel? Did you recently add these? I think the problem is that the kernel is trying to signal shutdown on the machine, but it isn't configured right.
> I can Ctrl-C my way out of it and continue to work in Gentoo, but a
> software shutdown isn't possible. I just reboot, enter the BIOS and
> hold the switch. What can I do about this little bug? And is there
> even any purpose in loading and saving a random seed when random
> numbers are (AFAIK) seeded by the timer?
Check your ACPI and/or APM configuration. The thing that is bugging me here is that you can get out of it, which makes me think that ACPI is signaling the power supply to switch off, but it doesn't. Try "reboot" to see if that works. I had a problem where my machine wouldn't power off, but it would reboot, and it was just a kernel configuration problem.
HTH,
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