[email protected] <[email protected]> [09-09-19 15:19]:
> Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 19 September 2009, [email protected] 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.
>
I solved the problem:
/etc/slim.conf has the
daemon = no
flag, so the boot process seems optically ok but hangs right
after slim hast started.
Shutting down the system tries to stop services/processes/action,
which never has been started...which fails in a hang.
I dont know exactly...but...if that flag is the default configuration
when installing slim I would suggest to change it to
daemon = yes
to prevent users like me to spend the weekend in searching for a
problem in the shutdown process.
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> How do
> you spend it?
>
> John Covici
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