Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3831 mails)

[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

Robert Lewis wrote:
> Paul Abrahams wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 1:28 pm, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> >   
> > > When I attempt to shut down my 10.2 system from KDE, the shutdown process
> > > stops when it's almost done.  I get to runlevel 0, and then get these
> > > messages:
> > >
> > > Failed services in runlevel 0: lm_sensors webmin
> > > Skipped services in runlevel 0: Susefirewall2_setup
> > >
> > > And then the computer just sits there.  The only way to stop it is with the
> > > power-off button.
> > >     
> >
> > The problem started after I turned off ACPI in the BIOS, though I didn't 
> > immediately realize that.  Turning ACPI back on restored the correct shutdown 
> > behavior.  There still might be a bug lurking here, though; why should the 
> > ACPI setting prevent the computer from shutting down?
> >
> > Paul
> >   
> In my experience the shutdown from the various GUI choices are problematic,
> intermittant and not reliable.   Using as root from a terminal session:
> shutdown -y -g0 -i0 always works for me.

Since when does SUSE accept the Solaris command options?

According to the man page (and the usage message) SUSE still uses 
the traditional
shutdown -h now
style to call. (Which is actually better, IMHO; if I want to switch 
to another init level, I can use telinit and maybe shutdown -k before.)

Cheers,
	Joachim

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Joachim Schrod				Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
Roedermark, Germany

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