Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory ???

On 03/30 06:02, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:56 PM, wrote: > >> > >> just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and... > >> shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory >

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory ???

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:56 PM, wrote: >> >> just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and... >> shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory > > See bug 651990.

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory ???

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:56 PM, wrote: > > just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and... > shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory Isn't "/run/initctl" a Debianism?!

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory ???

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 3:56 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and... > shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory > See bug 651990. https://bugs.gentoo.org/651990 Either upgrade to sysvinit-2.89-r1, or run the following

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory ???

Meino: > just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and... > shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory ... $ ls -l /run/initctl prw--- 1 root root 0 Mar 16 21:50 /run/initctl| I.e. it is a named pipe, which you can use to tell init things, like to shutdown. # man init

[gentoo-user] shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory ???

Hi, just a minute before I wanted to shutdown my Linux box...and... shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory Today I did the following ubdates Fri Mar 30 04:03:37 2018 <<< net-misc/dhcpcd-7.0.1 Fri Mar 30 04:03:41 2018 >>> net-misc/dhcpcd-7.0.2 Fri Mar 30 04:04:24 2018 <<<

[gentoo-user] shutdown -r now hangs in qemu-vm

Since updating app-emulation/libvirt and/or app-emulation/qemu (both were updated at the same time) I have a problem executing "shutdown -r now" in the vm ("shutdown -h now" works fine). When I execute "shutdown -r now" in the vm the shutdown process runs perfect until "Remounting root-filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown through systemctl as a normal user

On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 19:47 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:34 PM, lukash wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm reading on the internet that systemctl poweroff should work for > > normal user if he is the only one logged in, he is logged in > > locally > > and

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown through systemctl as a normal user

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:34 PM, lukash wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm reading on the internet that systemctl poweroff should work for > normal user if he is the only one logged in, he is logged in locally > and his session is active. I seem to be meeting these conditions: > > #

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown through systemctl as a normal user

On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 14:56 -0800, Willie Matthews wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:31:39 +0100 > lukash wrote: > > > On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 20:00 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > lukash wrote: > > >    > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm reading on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown through systemctl as a normal user

lukash wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm reading on the internet that systemctl poweroff should work for > normal user if he is the only one logged in, he is logged in locally > and his session is active. I seem to be meeting these conditions: > > # loginctl >    SESSIONUID

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown through systemctl as a normal user

On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:31:39 +0100 lukash wrote: > On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 20:00 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > lukash wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm reading on the internet that systemctl poweroff should work > > > for normal user if he is

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown through systemctl as a normal user

On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 20:00 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > lukash wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm reading on the internet that systemctl poweroff should work for > > normal user if he is the only one logged in, he is logged in > > locally > > and his session is active. I

[gentoo-user] Shutdown through systemctl as a normal user

Hi all, I'm reading on the internet that systemctl poweroff should work for normal user if he is the only one logged in, he is logged in locally and his session is active. I seem to be meeting these conditions: # loginctl    SESSIONUID USER SEAT  2   1000 lukash  

[gentoo-user] Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

Hi, another sigh from an Arietta adventure... I sintalled Gentoo on an Arietta G25 (http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta). For this I used Robert Nelsons Kernel for armv5tel platforms, which boots fine (using at91bootstrap, no U-Boot). But: Shutdown (as recommmended by acmesystems shutdown -h -H

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:46 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: What is the difference here? Isn't it, that all shutdown applications only send some instructions to the kernel and the kernel is the main actor in bringing the system down? About the only thing the kernel might have a role in is

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, another sigh from an Arietta adventure... I sintalled Gentoo on an Arietta G25 (http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta). For this I used Robert Nelsons Kernel for armv5tel platforms, which boots fine (using at91bootstrap, no U-Boot). But: Shutdown (as

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-12-01 19:16]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, another sigh from an Arietta adventure... I sintalled Gentoo on an Arietta G25 (http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta). For this I used Robert Nelsons Kernel for armv5tel platforms, which boots fine (using

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org [14-12-01 19:16]: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:46 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: What is the difference here? Isn't it, that all shutdown applications only send some instructions to the kernel and the kernel is the main actor in bringing the system down?

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

2014-12-01 12:40 GMT-06:00 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org [14-12-01 19:16]: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:46 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: What is the difference here? Isn't it, that all shutdown applications only send some instructions to the kernel and the kernel is

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com [14-12-01 20:36]: 2014-12-01 12:40 GMT-06:00 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org [14-12-01 19:16]: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:46 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: What is the difference here? Isn't it, that all shutdown applications only send

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

On Monday, December 01, 2014 7:34:35 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-12-01 19:16]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, another sigh from an Arietta adventure... I sintalled Gentoo on an Arietta G25 (http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta). For this I

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

On Monday, December 01, 2014 7:34:35 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-12-01 19:16]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, another sigh from an Arietta adventure... I sintalled Gentoo on an Arietta G25 (http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta). For this I

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:51 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com [14-12-01 20:36]: I've not seen you using the -P flag. That's why the manufacturer of the Arietta G25 - Acmesystems said to use shutdown -h -H now for that purpose: http://www.acmesystems.it/qa

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown, Gentoo and the Arietta.G25

On Dec 1, 2014, at 23:03, Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Monday, December 01, 2014 7:34:35 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [14-12-01 19:16]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, another sigh from an Arietta adventure... I sintalled

[gentoo-user] shutdown for non-root users?

Hi, how can I allow other (not-root) users to shut down system? I tried to add them to /etc/shutdown.allow but it works only for Ctrl-Alt-Del. When they try shutdown per command line (/sbin/shutdown -a -h now) they still get: shutdown: you must be root to do that! Usage: ... Is there any way

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown for non-root users?

If it's your home system and especial security is unimportant you can try next: chmod +s /sbin/halt and use /sbin/halt to achieve the same effect. You can use ACPI power button event (see /etc/acpi/events/default and uncomment appropriate line). Also there was method with dbus (searching the web

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown for non-root users?

On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:15:13 +0100, Jarry wrote: how can I allow other (not-root) users to shut down system? I tried to add them to /etc/shutdown.allow but it works only for Ctrl-Alt-Del. When they try shutdown per command line (/sbin/shutdown -a -h now) they still get: shutdown: you

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown for non-root users?

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 09:15:13PM +0100, Jarry wrote Hi, how can I allow other (not-root) users to shut down system? I tried to add them to /etc/shutdown.allow but it works only for Ctrl-Alt-Del. When they try shutdown per command line (/sbin/shutdown -a -h now) they still get:

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown options not available xfce4

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:17:58 +0200 Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de wrote: On 25.08.2012 20:54, john wrote: For the last few days whenever I start my PC the options to shutdown, restart, hibernate are greyed out in xfce. After restarting consolekit (which is already running)

[gentoo-user] Shutdown options not available xfce4

For the last few days whenever I start my PC the options to shutdown, restart, hibernate are greyed out in xfce. After restarting consolekit (which is already running) the options are available. I have rebuilt consolekit, xfce but unsure why this should start happening. Can anyone recommend how

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown options not available xfce4

On 25.08.2012 20:54, john wrote: For the last few days whenever I start my PC the options to shutdown, restart, hibernate are greyed out in xfce. After restarting consolekit (which is already running) the options are available. I have rebuilt consolekit, xfce but unsure why this should start

[gentoo-user] shutdown: device and target are missing

Hi, I noticed one strange message when doing full shutdown. It appears at the very end, before turning computer off: ... * Stopping fcron ... [ ok ] * Stopping syslog-ng ... [ ok ] * Terminating remaining processes ...

RE: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system.

To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system. No. But, I will try it now. I'll let you know if it works in a few minutes because I'm downloading the latests kernel sources. On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 23:30 -0300, Davi wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system.

Em Quinta 31 Maio 2007 23:24, Richard Marz escreveu: I have all the appropriate power management interfaces enabled in my kernel. ACPI is the one my system uses, but I've also tried APM and my system still doesn't manage to shut the power off on it's own. My motherboard is ATX but I'm forced

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system.

No. But, I will try it now. I'll let you know if it works in a few minutes because I'm downloading the latests kernel sources. On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 23:30 -0300, Davi wrote: shutdown -h now -P -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system.

I have all the appropriate power management interfaces enabled in my kernel. ACPI is the one my system uses, but I've also tried APM and my system still doesn't manage to shut the power off on it's own. My motherboard is ATX but I'm forced to shut it down as if it were an AT mobo. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system.

Richard Marz wrote: I have all the appropriate power management interfaces enabled in my kernel. ACPI is the one my system uses, but I've also tried APM and my How old is your bios? Have you tried acpi=force kernel param? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system.

-Original Message- From: Richard Marz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 11:40 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system. No. But, I will try it now. I'll let you know if it works in a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system.

Richard Marz wrote: I have all the appropriate power management interfaces enabled in my kernel. ACPI is the one my system uses, but I've also tried APM and my system still doesn't manage to shut the power off on it's own. My motherboard is ATX but I'm forced to shut it down as if it were an

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system.

It seems to be giving me the same behaviour as shutdown -h now. On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 22:39 -0400, Richard Marz wrote: No. But, I will try it now. I'll let you know if it works in a few minutes because I'm downloading the latests kernel sources. On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 23:30 -0300, Davi wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system.

I will try that right now. On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 23:51 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Richard Marz wrote: I have all the appropriate power management interfaces enabled in my kernel. ACPI is the one my system uses, but I've also tried APM and my How old is your bios? Have you tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system.

My Bios is up to date. It's not the BIOS. Shutdown has been confirmed to work with linux and freebsd kernels on my machine in the past. On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 23:51 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Richard Marz wrote: I have all the appropriate power management interfaces enabled in my kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown -h now is not powering down system.

I'll try this as well. On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 22:57 -0500, Dale wrote: Richard Marz wrote: I have all the appropriate power management interfaces enabled in my kernel. ACPI is the one my system uses, but I've also tried APM and my system still doesn't manage to shut the power off on it's

[gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with Give root password

Resending ... anyone have a clue as to why the Give root password for maintenance ... prompt would come up occasionally at shutdown time? Well, this is weird. We've all seen Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue):, usually after an unclean shutdown. I'm getting it

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with Give root password

Hi, On Tue, 09 May 2006 07:20:57 -0700 glen martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Resending ... anyone have a clue as to why the Give root password for maintenance ... prompt would come up occasionally at shutdown time? That's sulogin. Did you mess up your /etc/inittab (like uncommenting that line

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with Give root password

Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Tue, 09 May 2006 07:20:57 -0700 glen martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Resending ... anyone have a clue as to why the Give root password for maintenance ... prompt would come up occasionally at shutdown time? That's sulogin. Did you mess up your

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown pauses partway with Give root password

Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Maybe you can cat your /proc/mounts next time you're in that single-user mode? It might make things more clear... 3 power cycles later I duplicated the problem. Here is /proc/mounts, transcribed by hand. There is nothing obvious wrong here (to me) except that the

[gentoo-user] Shutdown halts partway with Give root password

Well, this is weird. We've all seen Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue):, usually after an unclean shutdown. I'm getting it on shutdown itself. I've never even heard of this, and searching google I haven't found any reference to it. This is a home theatre PC

[gentoo-user] Shutdown of hplip and adsl

Hello, when i shutdown my computer two failures are popping up. * Stopping hpiod ... start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 13172: No such process start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 13168: No such process * Stopping hpssd ... * Stopping eth0 * Bringing down eth0 * Stopping

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown/Restart Issue

On Friday 04 November 2005 20:49, C. Beamer wrote: Recently, when trying to restart or shutdown my computer using the K menu Log Out selection, which gives the options to End Current Session, Restart the Computer, Turn of the Computer. If I select to restart or turn off, my monitor shuts down,

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown/Restart Issue

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip Webb wrote: On Friday 04 November 2005 20:49, C. Beamer wrote: Recently, when trying to restart or shutdown my computer using the K menu "Log Out" selection, which gives the options to "End Current Session", "Restart the Computer", "Turn

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown/Restart Issue

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martins Steinbergs wrote: On Friday 04 November 2005 20:49, C. Beamer wrote: Hi All, Recently, I've started to experience an issue when trying to restart or shutdown my computer using the K menu "Log Out" selection, which gives the options to

[gentoo-user] Shutdown/Restart Issue

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Recently, I've started to experience an issue when trying to restart or shutdown my computer using the K menu Log Out selection, which gives the options to End Current Session, Restart the Computer, Turn of the Computer and of course, Cancel.

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown, restart problem

when xserver closes there is mess on screen and i loose any control over - just power button. Any ideas where to look? I dont keep track but possibly this is after baselayout and udev upgrade. Hmm. It seems X f***s up your video memory, or something of this kind. What video card and

[gentoo-user] shutdown, restart problem

hi, i run into this problem, calling for shutdown or restart wont work, and cant find any logs on that. when xserver closes there is mess on screen and i loose any control over - just power button. Any ideas where to look? I dont keep track but possibly this is after baselayout and udev

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown, restart problem

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 00:28 +0300, Martins Steinbergs wrote: i run into this problem, calling for shutdown or restart wont work, and cant find any logs on that. when xserver closes there is mess on screen and i loose any control over - just power button. Any ideas where to look? I dont

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown, restart problem

On Monday 24 October 2005 16:17, b.n. wrote: and cant find any logs on that. Do you mean xorg error logs and /var/log/messages say nothing? yes, logs has nothing relevant to any shutdown tasks when xserver closes there is mess on screen and i loose any control over - just power

[gentoo-user] Shutdown Issues

During the shutdown Gentoo brings down my eth0 connection, but my computer is connected to a router that uses xDSL for connection, so my questions is: Can I remove this, this way I won't have to reconnect my xDSL connection? Or this shouldn't interfer in my connection I I'm having to reconnect

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown Issues

E. Pereira schreef: During the shutdown Gentoo brings down my eth0 connection, but my computer is connected to a router that uses xDSL for connection, so my questions is: Can I remove this, this way I won't have to reconnect my xDSL connection? Or this shouldn't interfer in my connection I

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown Issues

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 11:12:13 -0300 (ART) E. Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the shutdown Gentoo brings down my eth0 connection, but my computer is connected to a router that uses xDSL for connection, so my questions is: Can I remove this, this way I won't have to reconnect my xDSL

[gentoo-user] shutdown -h on Power-button...

Hi, I want to set up my computer so that it would do automatically shutdown -h after short pressing of power button. Is the only solution to emerge acpid (found on gentoo-forum)? Would not it be easier with apm? Because I remember once in the past having a comp with some other linux-distro,

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown -h on Power-button...

Jarry wrote: Hi, I want to set up my computer so that it would do automatically shutdown -h after short pressing of power button. Is the only solution to emerge acpid (found on gentoo-forum)? Would not it be easier with apm? Because I remember once in the past having a comp with some

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown -h on Power-button...

Zac Medico wrote: Jarry wrote: Hi, I want to set up my computer so that it would do automatically shutdown -h after short pressing of power button. Is the only solution to emerge acpid (found on gentoo-forum)? Would not it be easier with apm? Because I remember once in the past having a

[gentoo-user] shutdown

During shutdown, I get 2 errors - ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. bootmisc is still up. ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. clock is still up. Further down, I get a message saying saving random seed, and nothing happens after that. I need to power the box off and back

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown

On 05/22/05 04:01, John Dangler wrote: During shutdown, I get 2 errors - ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. bootmisc is still up. ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. clock is still up. Further down, I get a message saying saving random seed, and nothing happens after that.

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown

On Sun, 22 May 2005 04:01:52 -0400, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During shutdown, I get 2 errors - ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. bootmisc is still up. ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. clock is still up. Further down, I get a message saying saving random

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown

On 05/22/05 17:09, Jaap van Geffen wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2005 04:01:52 -0400, John Dangler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During shutdown, I get 2 errors - ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. bootmisc is still up. ERROR: problems stopping dependent services. clock is still up. Further

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on Saving random seed...

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

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on Saving random seed...

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...

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on Saving random seed...

The Disguised Jedi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: 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...

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on Saving random seed...

On 4/27/05, The Disguised Jedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown now hangs on Saving random seed...

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:22:25AM -0400, Colin wrote: But it just hangs on this one: * Saving random seed... 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