Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 17 June 2004 23:21, Jason wrote:
> On Friday 18 June 2004 07:50, John Andersen wrote:
> > Locks up while killing WHAT proceesses?
> > Locks up HOW?  Keyboard lights flashing?
>
> No flashing lights, no panic. My machine locks up solid on shutdown on
> "Sending all processes TERM signal...". I've looked in /var/log/messages --
> no clues there just a gap in time until the next boot. Also happens when
> doing "init S".
>
> > There are several known acpi modules that should never be rmmod'ed
> > and if you do rmmod them the system hangs (kernel panic, flashing lights,
> > etc).  SuSE provides for this in yast2.
>
> I don't think it's ACPI. No ACPI modules are removed -- the setting
> POWERSAVE_ACPI_MODULES_NOT_TO_UNLOAD is the same as POWERSAVE_ACPI_MODULES
> -- I've not changed any settings -- just applied the update from YOU.
>
> I also downloaded the KOTD, just in case it was a bad patch, but that
> exhibits the same problem. Boots up OK, and seems to run OK.  But locks up
> on shutdown.
>
> Revert back to 2.5.4-54.5 and everything is fine -- apart from the security
> bug, of course :-( but I think there's a greater risk from not umounting
> the filesystems when I shut the machine down at the end of the day...

Agreed, that security bug is only going to bite you if you allow
untrusted users shell access on your box.

> Any clues how I can diagnose this?
>
> Jason

Well, probably not without re-installing the problem child.  It sounds to 
me from reading this list that there will be another kernel within 
a month because of all the hard-disk problems upon re-boot.


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John Andersen