On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Duncan Groenewald <[email protected]> wrote: > I have installed 2008.11 live CD and it is running fine for the most part > except when I shut down. > > I am used to getting a bunch of shutdown messages, the last of which tells me > its OK to power off the system (or something like that). I think the server > even used to power down automatically. > > Since installation 2008.11 I no longer seem to get the correct shutdown > messages and the server does not shut down. > > Can anyone tell me what the correct behaviour I should expect to see is when > using the Shutdown menu option from the Gnome desktop ?
Normally still the same: Some flashing, you see how all user processes get the hangup signal and kill themselves, Xorg stops, the boot-archives get sync'ed (if a change to /-fs makes this necessary, otherwise not), text-console with those normal shutdown-messages until "syncing fileseystems". Then - and that's "new" on x86 (when compared to ancient Solaris versions), power gets switched off, rather than telling you "It is save to reboot this computer by pressing [Enter]. But, and that may cause trouble on some configurations, only if the system's ACPI gets properly recognized. It seems that in your scenario this wasn't the case, which is the reason why your box appears to hang. %martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
