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On Wednesday 11 May 2011 17:28:26 Insomniac wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 04:28 benefici@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi,
> > My desktop PC (with openSUSE 11.4) does not shutdown completely at times.
> > This is very worrying as one of the steps missed is the unmounting of
> > file systems. Then of course on the next boot-up the file systems are
> > found unclean. Unfortunately I have also lost data because of this. I
> > started collecting evidence about the problem by making video recordings
> > of shutdown messages. I compared a complete shutdown with an incomplete
> > one and found that the messages up to "Running /etc/init.d/halt.local"
> > were present in both videos (in a different order). Then the following
> > messages were missing from the incomplete shutdown:
> >
> > Turning off swap files
> > Set Hardware Clock to the current System Time
> > Unmounting file systems
> > none has been unmounted
> > /dev/md6 has been unmounted
> > /dev/md7 has been unmounted
> > Shutting down MD Raid
> > Stopping udevd:
> >
> > After that both videos finished with the same messages:
> >
> > Sending all processes the TERM signal...
> > Sending all processes the KILL signal...
> > The system will be halted immediately.
> >
> > The above two videos were recorded about 2 hours apart, first the
> > complete then the incomplete one. I did nothing special in between -
> > used digiKam, checked my e-mail etc. I did not update my system or
> > changed any system files. Any ideas how to track down / fix this
> > problem?
> > Tom
>
>   I had this same problem, but I'm using 11.3.
>
>   After asking for help on this list and nothing coming up, I fell back to
> the old standard of checking the hardware.
>
>   Come to find out that it was my video card causing all the problems.
>
>   I was using the nVidia 256.53 straight from nVidia's website, but it
> wasn't the driver making any problems (my MOBO has nVidia chipsets and
> thus built-in video for my old monitor) because my system worked fine
> after I took out the video card and used the MOBO plug. I've finally
> graduated to the nVidia 270.41.06 driver and still it's working fine
> (turns out there just wasn't any need for me to 'upgrade' the driver since
> the newer one hasn't done anything better than the other one).
>
>   Try unplugging one thing at a time on the MOBO. Maybe you guys also have
> some kind of hardware problem.

Thanks for the suggestion. I also have an nvidia card and am using the 
260.19.36 driver. Unfortunately I have no other graphic cards to replace it 
with. And also unfortunately (fortunately?) I don't have any other cards in my 
PC...
I tried disabling desktop effects but that didn't help.
Tom
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