Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1185 mails)

[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

Mark Goldstein wrote:
> In my experience after X is killed and I log in as root and issue
> "halt" command, in most cases it works, but sometimes it is stuck at
> some point after stopping network services.

The ordering of service shutdown in 11.1 is sometimes flawed; I
don't know about 11.2 as I don't have it running currently.

E.g., autofs is shut down much too early as it may mount home
directories. Any service that may access home directories (e.g.,
postfix, Samba, or others) may have a problem later on. I have also
changed ldap and ypbind from $remote_fs to $local_fs in
Required-Stop, though I don't remember why. Also termination of
user processes is unreliable, sometimes local filesystems can't be
unmounted cleanly because some processes still uses it. (This is a
regression that appeared with 11.1; 10.x installations with the
same software/service set on the same hardware didn't have that
behaviour.)

Probably this happens in your case as well; some service shutdown
does not succeed since it waits for some resource that is either
not available any more or blocked. Since these situations often
only appear after some usage and often reboots are so damned
inconvenient, it is very hard to chase the root cause of these
problems.

        Joachim

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Joachim Schrod                          Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
Roedermark, Germany

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