Re: shutdown hangs

Peter T. Breuer <ptb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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.

I think it's pointless to argue with somebody like you, so I won't.

Laurenz Albe
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