Can't shutdown

Jengu · Guru Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 384

I've got gentoo itself installed and I've been putting in my wm of choice (fluxbox), etc. and everything is working perfect except shutting down, which is a big deal because this is a laptop (Dell Inspiron 8000). shutdown -r now works fine, but plain shutdown now does not.

After it stops XDM it gives the message:

su(pam_unix)[6689]: session closed for user root

I tried pkilli'ing xdm before trying to shut down, but that just made it say error shutting down xdm and then still freeze.

Then it just sits there forever. Eventually the screen goes black, I think that maybe it just trying to save power. In any case, the laptop stays on :/

Since I've been installing I can't remember if I'd just tried reboots so far, or if this worked before and I broke it. If something were wrong with the init script or the shutdown command how would I restore them?

Anyone know how to get shutdown working?

Specs:
Dell Inspiron 8000
256MB PC100 SDRAM
20GB HD
BIOS A22
Touchpad/keyboardpointer/usbmouse
Rage 128 Mobility w/ dri working
Maestro3 alsa (also working)

TimG · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 62 Location: Houston, TX

Do you have power management turned on in your kernel?

Jengu · Guru Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 384

Yup, I have ACPI enabled, and dmesg shows it all turning on properly with no errors. I have wmacpi running and it's detecting when I'm running off AC or batteries properly.

stkaplan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 108

Try "shutdown -h now"

sorooros · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:59 am Post subject:

Deathwing00 · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:29 am Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo.

Jengu · Guru Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 384

shutdown -h now does work, and the man pages tell me this is supposed to halt the system after shutdown. Every other distrobution that I've used has not required me to do this. Why is gentoo different? Do the other distros just setup an alias to try and be more user friendly?

TiE10 · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 59 Location: NA

hi, i'm having a similar problem.. but it seems to be caused by lsmod..
When i tried doing an lsmod, it freezes the terminal. When i shutdown, it brings up (sorry, can't get exact error as it only shows up if i try before i startx) something about "process lsmod" and gives a bunch of codes and stuff. Any idea what's wrong?
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