On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 04:28 benefici@fastmail.fm 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. -- "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." -Isaac Asimov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org