On 14/02/12 23:21, Rodney Baker wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:38:36 Basil Chupin wrote:
OK, who's been fooling around with something so that since some updates done yesterday (my time, Australian Eastern Daylight Time) oS 12.1 [32-bit] will not shutdown the way it has been doing for....for....for ever? :-(
Right-click on Desktop, select Leave>Shutdown the Computer - and the system hangs :-( . No mouse, no keyboard.....just the green screen with the gecko sitting there in the bottom-right corner staring at me.....
Even using ALT-CTRL-F3, logging in as root and issuing the 'halt' command results in.....nothing :-( . Black screen, the computer keeps running...The only way to stop it is to physically power-off.
Surely I am not the only one suddenly suffering this hassle?
BC Sounds like the system is waiting for a specific process to stop that is never actually stopping. Are you able to switch to tty10 (Ctrl+Alt+F10) after issuing the shutdown -h now command?
Does anything show up in /var/log/messages after you've rebooted?
I've heard of people hooking up another computer via a serial port and using a terminal program to watch the console output to spot boot problems - I'm wondering if that could also be done to debug this? Not that I've tried it - I think you have to redirect the kernel ring-buffer output to the serial port but don't ask me how to do that. :-)
Ed's suggestion of a startup script that hasn't completed is also a good one - you might check dmesg and /var/log/messages before rebooting (or try Ctrl-F10 while the system is booting/running) to see if anything sticks out.
Thank you everybody who responded to my post. An update - whatever it was - this morning [my time] cured this problem and the system now shuts down as in the past. And sorry for not responding until now to all the help posts but I have been trying to get Milestone 1 of v12.2 working correctly (and I really won't know if it does work until I boot into it after posting this message). BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org