[gentoo-user] system won't stop....
Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing to shutdown..?? My system, running on a Tyan motherboard with twin PIII processors and GeForce4 Ti 4200 display, seems to be unstoppable... I suspect it is the X server which is refusing to stop, but I am not sure what is getting it in such a state. Any ideas? Is there anything I can do other than a hard reset in this condition? Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Digby Tarvin wrote: Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing to shutdown..?? Yes, with 2.6.12 gentoo-sources and inotify. The system freezes if you try to umount a ntfs partition after using it. My system, running on a Tyan motherboard with twin PIII processors and GeForce4 Ti 4200 display, seems to be unstoppable... I suspect it is the X server which is refusing to stop, but I am not sure what is getting it in such a state. Please, be more specific about the place where this happens. Do you click shutdown from Gnome or KDE? Do you run shutdown -h now from from console and so on. Any ideas? Is there anything I can do other than a hard reset in this condition? Usually, when my desktop freezes, I try to ssh in with my laptop and see what happens. If I can ssh in, I know the problem is with X. Regards, DigbyT Regards, Petteri Räty -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCyB4IcxLzpIGCsLQRAuTxAJ9VhNU05jjS4J0VrsleD4UfgHmzmQCePFRL lmuILXJMJB2ekNPPqkTpZ/0= =Bsg2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system won't stop....
I logged in via ssh from another system and ran 'telinit 3' to try to shutdown the X server. This had no effect - 'who -r' continued to report runlevel 5. The default gentoo runlevel is 3. Unless youve changed that then doing telinit 3 is largely pointless. What runlevel was the system that you ssh'ed from running at? Was that a gentoo system? I then ran 'halt' as root to attempt a reboot, and this also had no effect. The system carried on as though nothing had happened, except with no console. Did you try to Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the X server? Repeated attempts to halt or 'kill -9' the X server had no effect, so I pressed the button, which had the desired effect. The proper way to shutdown from the console is to run /sbin/shutdown -r now Obviously you need to be working as root. or press Ctrl-Alt-Del did you try /etc/init.d/xdm stop This should stop the X session if you started it using the standard bootup proccess. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- Why does New Jersey have more toxic waste dumps and California have more lawyers? New Jersey had first choice. pgppdgho0wOoT.pgp Description: PGP signature
