[opensuse] System now won't shutdown
OK, who's been fooling around with something so that since some updates done yesterday (my time, Australian Eastern Daylight Time) oS 12.1 [32-bit] will not shutdown the way it has been doing for....for....for ever? :-( Right-click on Desktop, select Leave>Shutdown the Computer - and the system hangs :-( . No mouse, no keyboard.....just the green screen with the gecko sitting there in the bottom-right corner staring at me..... Even using ALT-CTRL-F3, logging in as root and issuing the 'halt' command results in.....nothing :-( . Black screen, the computer keeps running...The only way to stop it is to physically power-off. Surely I am not the only one suddenly suffering this hassle? BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 02/14/2012 07:08 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
OK, who's been fooling around with something so that since some updates done yesterday (my time, Australian Eastern Daylight Time) oS 12.1 [32-bit] will not shutdown the way it has been doing for....for....for ever? :-(
Right-click on Desktop, select Leave>Shutdown the Computer - and the system hangs :-( . No mouse, no keyboard.....just the green screen with the gecko sitting there in the bottom-right corner staring at me.....
Even using ALT-CTRL-F3, logging in as root and issuing the 'halt' command results in.....nothing :-( . Black screen, the computer keeps running...The only way to stop it is to physically power-off.
Surely I am not the only one suddenly suffering this hassle?
Not having any hassle here. Of course you've checked to see what packages were updated so maybe you'd have some clue as to what it could have been? FWIW, the last time (long time ago) I had a system that wouldn't shut down it was due to a start-up script that hadn't completed. I didn't notice it since I wasn't using the offending package. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 14 February 2012, Basil Chupin wrote:
OK, who's been fooling around with something so that since some updates done yesterday (my time, Australian Eastern Daylight Time) oS 12.1 [32-bit] will not shutdown the way it has been doing for....for....for ever? :-(
Right-click on Desktop, select Leave>Shutdown the Computer - and the system hangs :-( . No mouse, no keyboard.....just the green screen with the gecko sitting there in the bottom-right corner staring at me.....
Even using ALT-CTRL-F3, logging in as root and issuing the 'halt' command results in.....nothing :-( . Black screen, the computer keeps running...The only way to stop it is to physically power-off.
Surely I am not the only one suddenly suffering this hassle?
Try using sysvinit instead of systemd, see http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Most_annoying_bugs_12.1
BC
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On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:38:36 Basil Chupin wrote:
OK, who's been fooling around with something so that since some updates done yesterday (my time, Australian Eastern Daylight Time) oS 12.1 [32-bit] will not shutdown the way it has been doing for....for....for ever? :-(
Right-click on Desktop, select Leave>Shutdown the Computer - and the system hangs :-( . No mouse, no keyboard.....just the green screen with the gecko sitting there in the bottom-right corner staring at me.....
Even using ALT-CTRL-F3, logging in as root and issuing the 'halt' command results in.....nothing :-( . Black screen, the computer keeps running...The only way to stop it is to physically power-off.
Surely I am not the only one suddenly suffering this hassle?
BC
Sounds like the system is waiting for a specific process to stop that is never actually stopping. Are you able to switch to tty10 (Ctrl+Alt+F10) after issuing the shutdown -h now command? Does anything show up in /var/log/messages after you've rebooted? I've heard of people hooking up another computer via a serial port and using a terminal program to watch the console output to spot boot problems - I'm wondering if that could also be done to debug this? Not that I've tried it - I think you have to redirect the kernel ring-buffer output to the serial port but don't ask me how to do that. :-) Ed's suggestion of a startup script that hasn't completed is also a good one - you might check dmesg and /var/log/messages before rebooting (or try Ctrl-F10 while the system is booting/running) to see if anything sticks out. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 14/02/12 23:21, Rodney Baker wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:38:36 Basil Chupin wrote:
OK, who's been fooling around with something so that since some updates done yesterday (my time, Australian Eastern Daylight Time) oS 12.1 [32-bit] will not shutdown the way it has been doing for....for....for ever? :-(
Right-click on Desktop, select Leave>Shutdown the Computer - and the system hangs :-( . No mouse, no keyboard.....just the green screen with the gecko sitting there in the bottom-right corner staring at me.....
Even using ALT-CTRL-F3, logging in as root and issuing the 'halt' command results in.....nothing :-( . Black screen, the computer keeps running...The only way to stop it is to physically power-off.
Surely I am not the only one suddenly suffering this hassle?
BC Sounds like the system is waiting for a specific process to stop that is never actually stopping. Are you able to switch to tty10 (Ctrl+Alt+F10) after issuing the shutdown -h now command?
Does anything show up in /var/log/messages after you've rebooted?
I've heard of people hooking up another computer via a serial port and using a terminal program to watch the console output to spot boot problems - I'm wondering if that could also be done to debug this? Not that I've tried it - I think you have to redirect the kernel ring-buffer output to the serial port but don't ask me how to do that. :-)
Ed's suggestion of a startup script that hasn't completed is also a good one - you might check dmesg and /var/log/messages before rebooting (or try Ctrl-F10 while the system is booting/running) to see if anything sticks out.
Thank you everybody who responded to my post. An update - whatever it was - this morning [my time] cured this problem and the system now shuts down as in the past. And sorry for not responding until now to all the help posts but I have been trying to get Milestone 1 of v12.2 working correctly (and I really won't know if it does work until I boot into it after posting this message). BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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