Re: shutdown hangs

Laurenz Albe <invite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Peter T. Breuer <ptb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Sorry for not providing help, and just making a pun, but... how can one
>>> "successfully start" more than one shutdown? :^)
>>
>> Easily - what is the problem? The difficulty is successfully FINISHING
>> more than one shutdown, not starting them.
>>
>> This argues for a kernel oops.

> Don't be silly.
> The problem is that one of the shell scripts hangs.

Yes, and the reason it hangs is? The answer is "probably a kernel
oops". There's no reason to hang on a standard distro. I'd give the odds
as 60/40, and the hang has to be in-kernel or the killall5 would have got the
process. The most likely point for a such a hang is when dismounting
something on a device that does not exist, or when rmmodding a module.

Peter
.

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