Re: shutdown hangs

hawat.thufir@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> ..
>>> For all variations specified above, as root, I get a broadcast message
>>> indicating that the system is going down. That's it, then, nothing
>>> happens.
>>
>> And what happens when you run "init 0" directly?

> I did this from XFCE and the keyboard stopped working, but the mouse still

Well, don't. Do it someplace you can check what is going on! Please be
exact about what is happening - you want to watch the entire sequence of
events as they happen in order to give meaningful information.


> worked. I started a new terminal, but still wasn't able to enter
> commands. I gave up and hit the "restart" button on the computer :(

Good. It sounds like the shutdown sequence worked fine - though I'm
puzzled that enough of something was still running for the mouse
movement to still be visible. Why didn't X die? Maybe there's no
killall5 these days, and shutdown itself does the kill? No .. it should
be in S20sendsigs!

What does running that do?


>> What does a strace of the shutdown process tell you?

> I don't know what that is at the moment, there's no manual entry for that
> command--I'll do some googling later.

Of course there is! Don't look in the manual for it, INSTALL it, THEN
look in the manual for it!

>> Trace the sequence. Look at pstree to see what is happening. What does
>> S90halt do?

> I probably should've done this first, before "init 0". I like pstree,
> that's good command to keep in mind for the future, thanks :)

Peter
.

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