>>>>> "David" == David Fleck <[email protected]> writes:
David> Another vote for "Shutdown Anyway". Again, not that it helps David> you much, sorry. David> But it is an occasion for me to complain about yet another David> instance of what this old UNIX crank sees as the creeping David> Windows-ization of Linux, at least in popular newbie-oriented David> distros like Ubuntu. There comes a point when hiding David> complexity from the user becomes harmful, and cryptic system David> messages like this strike me as a good example. David> *What* program is still running? What PID? What lockfile? David> Come on, Ubuntu, would giving up those bits of information David> really be so hard? One of my "users" recently reported occasional hung shutdowns. Turns out, when this occurred he had been running virtualbox and had shutdown a windows vm in a suspended state. I am guessing that a shared filesystem from the vm on the host was responsible. -- Russell Senior ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.'' [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
