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 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? > > Have you enabled apm or acpi in your kernel?
ACPI is compiled into the kernel and enabled in the BIOS. I don't have APM on this computer, so it's not compiled in. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
