Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- Hi. I have a somewhat similar problem, when I shutdown it goes all the way to the end, but instead of shutting down, it says init: nomore processes left in this runlevel. This is fine if I am here, but from a remote location it would not work, so how can I figure out why this is happening? I think this started when I went to baselayout 2, but not certain of that.
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