Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[Alistair Hamilton <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 07:01, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
> On Monday 02 January 2006 22:11, Alistair Hamilton wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am puzzled as to what is going on with preload during a system
> > shutdown.
> >
> > A lot of time passes with messages announcing that preload is "laying
> > out" various applications.  This is irritating.  Waiting a long time for
> > a computer to shut down is more frustrating than waiting for it to start
> > up.
>
> I can imagine it is only so when you're waiting to plug it off and do some
> hardware upgrade.
>
> Otherwise, why would you need to wait for it to shut down?  You can go
> about your business and leave it to do it by itself.
>
Hi

Several instances.  I run SUSE on a laptop that sometimes needs to be rebooted 
into another operating system.  The additional wait for SUSE to shut down is 
annoying.  (It is not always possible to do a software suspend because there 
is a shared partition.)  This other OS manages to shut itself down cleanly in 
about 5 seconds.  SUSE takes nearer 20.

Alistair