2009/9/19 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>:
> On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>> > cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during
>> > that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade.
>> >
>> > > Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The
>> > > usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly
>> > > Broken By ${DEITY} - this tagline picker is spooky at times :-O
>> > > -- Neil Bothwick
>> >
>> > I tried this once when I was unable to get my keyboard to respond to
>> > anything else. I made it through the first three or four and was
>> > returned to a console with a working keyboard. Since you are shutting
>> > down, you may want to go through them all to be safe. I think the last
>> > one does a reboot.
>> >
>> > Hope that helps.
>> >
>> > Dale
>> >
>> > :-) :-)
>>
>> Hi Dale,
>>
>> thanks a lot for your help!!! :)
>>
>> This will help to bring donw the machine in an more
>> cleaner way as simply pressing the power switch ;-)
>>
>> But:
>> How can I figure out, what hangs the shutdown process itsself?
>
> Last time I came across a problem like this I had forgotten to select the
> right chipset under Graphics support/AGP Support/ in the kernel. So I
> suggest you revisit your kernel and xorg drivers setups for your card.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
Hi,
I got a similar problem too once... and what was making the system
hang wasn't the last shutting down thing listed, but the one just
after (so i don't think it's net.lo fault in your case). So i suggest
to have a look at which services are started at boot, but aren't
shutted down. Turning off parallel boot could help you find out the
responsible service.
In my case it was a misconfiguration of the alsa module, which
shouldn't be unloaded at shotdown time...
HTH
Davide
