On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:01:25 -0400 Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
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?
Just to be clear on my position: The "init" recommendation I made to the OP was in response to his specific difficulties running "reboot" and "shutdown" on a remote system. I've had no need to run "init" on my own 11.4 installation because everything is "just working" as it should <knock on wood>. In fact, this is easily the most trouble free openSUSE installation I've ever run. So, in your case, Anton, I would definitely investigate further. There are probably plenty of clues in the logs. regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org