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Hikaru79
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 Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:44 am Post subject: Cannot seem to shut down properly |
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Shutting down seems to be a huge problem for my Gentoo (brand new). As root, if I do 'shutdown now', it begins the shutdown process, but always stays stuck indefinetly at "Saving Random Seed [ok]" and never goes past that point. As for trying to shut down from XFce, it's not even an option -- it's greyed out.
Any ideas? =/ I'm having to force-shut it every single time. |
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ONEEYEMAN
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:06 am Post subject: |
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What's gonna hapeen, when you pressw the power button after it freezes, on shutdown now command? Does it give you an error in this case?
Thank you. |
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RinkyDinks_RJ
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:17 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | As for trying to shut down from XFce, it's not even an option -- it's greyed out. |
Are you running a dm? (xdm, gdm, kdm). If you're not then running one should fix that.
Try using acpid or apmd, it fixes this problem on some computers. |
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Hikaru79
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| ONEEYEMAN wrote: | What's gonna hapeen, when you pressw the power button after it freezes, on shutdown now command? Does it give you an error in this case?
Thank you. |
I'm not sure what you mean. If I press the power button after it freezes, it just... turns off. It doesn't give an error message when it turns back on , at any rate.
And Rinky, thanks =) I'll give a dm a try. |
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Hikaru79
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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I really hate to bump topics like this, but not being able to shut down seems to me like a pretty serious problem, and any guidance would be GREATLY appreciated...  So, does anyone know why 'shutdown now' hangs on "Saving random seed [ok]" ?  |
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Timer
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I have the same problem too :/ Any help would be appreciated. |
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Hikaru79
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| Timer wrote: | | I have the same problem too :/ Any help would be appreciated. |
This problem was solved for me in the IRC channel. Apparently, its now standard procedure to use as opposed to . Try that. |
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Lechium
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phsdv
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:28 am Post subject: Re: Cannot seem to shut down properly |
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| Hikaru79 wrote: | | As for trying to shut down from XFce, it's not even an option -- it's greyed out. |
This was solved for me after I installed sudo. |
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phsdv
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Cannot seem to shut down properly |
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| Hikaru79 wrote: | | Shutting down seems to be a huge problem for my Gentoo (brand new). As root, if I do 'shutdown now', it begins the shutdown process, but always stays stuck indefinetly at "Saving Random Seed [ok]" |
Apperently you go to init level 1 and not 0. Or you init levels are not correct. How does your /etc/inittab file look like? |
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Hikaru79
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:01 pm Post subject: Re: Cannot seem to shut down properly |
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| phsdv wrote: | | Hikaru79 wrote: | | Shutting down seems to be a huge problem for my Gentoo (brand new). As root, if I do 'shutdown now', it begins the shutdown process, but always stays stuck indefinetly at "Saving Random Seed [ok]" |
Apperently you go to init level 1 and not 0. Or you init levels are not correct. How does your /etc/inittab file look like? |
Here it is: | Code: | #
# /etc/inittab: This file describes how the INIT process should set up
# the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@cistron.nl>
# Modified by: Patrick J. Volkerding, <volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com>
# Modified by: Daniel Robbins, <drobbins@gentoo.org>
# Modified by: Martin Schlemmer, <azarah@gentoo.org>
#
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/inittab,v 1.6 2003/01/06 21:32:43 azarah Exp $
#
# Default runlevel.
id:3:initdefault:
# System initialization, mount local filesystems, etc.
si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit
# Further system initialization, brings up the boot runlevel.
rc::bootwait:/sbin/rc boot
l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown
l1:S1:wait:/sbin/rc single
l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork
l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default
l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default
l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default
l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot
#z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
# TERMINALS
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
# What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now
# Used by /etc/init.d/xdm to control DM startup.
# Read the comments in /etc/init.d/xdm for more
# info. Do NOT remove, as this will start nothing
# extra at boot if /etc/init.d/xdm is not added
# to the "default" runlevel.
x:a:once:/etc/X11/startDM.sh
# End of /etc/inittab
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Is there anything wrong with it? |
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phsdv
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: Cannot seem to shut down properly |
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| Hikaru79 wrote: | | Is there anything wrong with it? |
Nope, nothing... I have the same.
It looks your system going to "init 1" instead of "init 0" for a shutdown, very strange. Does the same thing happen when you do this from a console (without X11)? And after it stops and you press <enter> you still have the prompt? If you have, you are really in init 1. |
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nizar
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject: Re: Cannot seem to shut down properly |
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| phsdv wrote: | | Hikaru79 wrote: | | Is there anything wrong with it? |
Nope, nothing... I have the same.
It looks your system going to "init 1" instead of "init 0" for a shutdown, very strange. Does the same thing happen when you do this from a console (without X11)? And after it stops and you press <enter> you still have the prompt? If you have, you are really in init 1. |
Exactly the problem that I have
usually shutting kdm fails and nothing happens, I press ENTER and I have the prompt again! Another reboot/shutdown does the reboot/shutdown.
Any ideas
TIA |
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phsdv
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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I just had a look at the c-code of shutdown.c, it will show to which runlevel it will go:
| Code: | /* Tell users what we're gonna do. */
switch(down_level[0]) {
case '0':
strcpy(newstate, "for system halt");
break;
case '6':
strcpy(newstate, "for reboot");
break;
case '1':
strcpy(newstate, "to maintenance mode");
break;
default:
sprintf(newstate, "to runlevel %s", down_level);
break;
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Do you see eny of those messages?
Also you should really try: see following code:
| Code: | /* Process the options. */
while((c = getopt(argc, argv, "acqkrhnfFyt:g:i:")) != EOF) {
switch(c) {
....
case 'r': /* Automatic reboot */
down_level[0] = '6';
break;
case 'h': /* Halt after shutdown */
down_level[0] = '0';
break;
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after that it will call the init process with the runlevel to go to: | Code: | /* Now execute init to change runlevel. */
sync();
execv(INIT, args); |
Can you check if as root will halt your system? |
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Gentoo-Ed
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:38 am Post subject: |
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sorry for "budging in" like this
I have the same problem too. In when I do init 0 instead of shutdown my system is neetly turned off. Wonder why shutdown doesn't. |
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phsdv
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Hoi Ed, We really do not know. Does "shutdown -h" help? What messages do you have when you do a shutdown? |
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Gentoo-Ed
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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I did the shutdown with " shutdown -h" or " shutdown -h now".
Both don't get any error messages at all.
If wan't I can provide the entire sequence of messages (I'll just hook up the laptop next to the screen and type it over".
Fortunatly it isn't really anoying because I know init 0 does work.
I'll keep toggleing it between installations of other software.
Turn off by button doesn't work |
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