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[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

benefici@xxxxxxxxxxx said the following on 05/11/2011 05:28 AM:
> My desktop PC (with openSUSE 11.4) does not shutdown completely at times.

This is happening to me as well, with a interesting variation.
KDE4 is not saving the session on shut-down.
I've tried logging out before shutting down;
I've tried logging out, going to the text mode console.
I go to 'init 3' and then I try unmounting the file systems one by one
but find that KDE is still running.

I unmount what I can and use 'shut-down -h now' but that doesn't do a
complete shut-down; it takes an 'init 0'.


When I come back up I find a lot of the session state has not been restored.

* klipper was running in the system tray, now its not
* konqueror was running, now its not
* the names I've assigned to the virtual screen in the Pager
  are lost
* sound is off.  I have to run 'alsamixer -c 0' and find *everything*
  has been muted and levels set to zero


I haven't seen lost files, but then I'm not saving large files as you
are, Tom.

If I were, I'd start by checking the file systems - FSCK, free space.
Free space might matter since a lack of it can cause problems with
latency in allocation with some file systems that make use of fragmented
blocks.  I'd check logs.  *ALWAYS* check logs!  I'd see if its a problem
with file closing or with file unmounting independently from the
shutdown.   Slice and dice and localise the problem.  That's what I'm
doing with my KDE4/sound problems.

Since I run LVM its easy for me to (re)create file systems using
different formats - ext3, XFS, reiser or Btrfs configured for
high-bandwidth.

http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20040407211142/aurora.zemris.fer.hr/filesystems/







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