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 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.
ACPI is compiled in and enabled in the BIOS. I don't have APM, so I don't have support for that. My USE flags include "acpi -apm" > > 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. I doubt that, since when it reboots, there are more steps, ending with unmounting the filesystems and remounting them read-only. The power supply does switch off; I briefly installed WinXP SP2 to test the hardware and make sure everything worked, and there were no problems. -- Colin -- [email protected] mailing list
