Hello, This issue occured both with SLES 9 SP2 and SLES 9 SP3 on an IBM x346. We have different hardwaremodels (IBM x306m, IBM x346, ...). To install SLES9 SP2 on an IBM x306m we needed to provide a diskette with the driverupdate for the raid controller. I added this driver in the driverupdate from SLES 9 SP2 (used scripts on site of Uwe Gansert to do this). Installation of my testserver (which is an IBM x346) goes fine. However the server hangs when i reboot the server after logging in. (install uses the default sp2 kernel. reboot is needed to activate the bigsmp kernel). During reboot the server hangs after the message "Please stand by while rebooting the system...". Since nothing happens I press CTRL-ALT-DEL in order to try to reboot and then the message "shutdown: warning: cannot open /var/run/shutdown.pid" appears and the server doesn't continue. I actually have to hold the power button for 4 sec to shutdown the server. I've reinstalled the server, logged in, then removed the unused kernelmodule of the x306m raidcontroller and then rebooted the server. Reboot works fine after this. I would assume that a loaded kernelmodule that is not in use, wouldn't cause such a problem. Anybody who has an idea of what's going wrong? Rgds, Johan