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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
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