Carl Hartung said the following on 08/10/2011 04:32 AM:
Finally, I agree in theory that the commands in question are virtually identical. But the theory fails each time it encounters an 'anomalous' installation, which it inevitably and incontrovertibly does.
+1 A recent kernel upgrade seems to have aggravated the problem on my laptop. GUI shutdown by logging out and using the option on KDM works more reliably but not 100%. Sometimes disks don't get unmounted. If I go to a console and shut down with 'shutdown -h now' it hangs about 20% of the time. Another 20% of the time it just shutdown without unmounting disks. The reliable way is to go "init 3", "init 1" login "umount -a" and then "init 0" It didn't used to be like this. Let me emphasise: The problem is intermittent. Phase of the moon? Proximity of Cats? -- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwight D. Eisenhower -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org