Freezing During Shutdown

**Cabhan** · 06-20-2005

Alrighty. I'm running Gentoo 2005.0, kernel 2.6.11-r11.

Now then, my issue is that when I run a shutdown, I get to "Shutting down random number generator" (or is it "random seed"? Whatever it is :P), and it then freezes. I have to power off the computer, and it's always an unclean shutdown.

The thing is, it works during a restart, just not in a shutdown.

I don't know where to start, so if anyone can help, I'd be grateful.

I'll be back in a few days, so it might be a bit of a delayed response on my part, but thanks in advance!

**sarumont** · 06-21-2005

Check your logs! See if anything is amiss in them after you restart...that's always the first place to start digging for answers.

**Cabhan** · 06-24-2005

Gracie.

Well, I've gone through the logs in /var/log. I can't seem to find any with error messages

.

I've also tried, from the /var/log directory:

Code:

grep "random seed" *
grep shutdown *
grep "shutting down" *

And none give me any useful information.

Can you possibly give me any other sort of pointer?

**loft306** · 06-24-2005

this may have something to do with 'acpci' & 'apm' the power management stuff ...if i enable apci on my a64 desktop i get weird **** like that ...ranging from no softboot(reset or reboot) to no complete halt (stopping in the middle of shtdown) thogh i sometimes get a "system halted" "power off" but not always and if i take out the power management module/driver all is fine (also dont have apm & acpi at the same time)

that should get yo going in the rite direction

**Cabhan** · 06-25-2005

I went in and disabled ACPI, but I still got the freezing...

I've also tried shutting down, then getting to the freeze, then cancelling and looking at my logs. But syslog-ng shuts down before the random seed does...

. Any other ideas?

**junkman4547** · 06-28-2005

Mine is the same...... until I can solve this problem, I just press the "off" button on the computer case.....

Didn't seem to hurt anything.

**sarumont** · 06-28-2005

Have you tried a different kernel version?

**junkman4547** · 06-30-2005

Originally Posted by sarumont

Have you tried a different kernel version?

No I haven't .. I'm afraid I might totally screw everything up .. It's a minor irritant that I can live with

**loft306** · 07-09-2005

i started getting this again with the 2.6.11-gentoo-r11kernel if i use the 2.6.9 the problem is not there

Originally Posted by junkman4547

Originally Posted by sarumont

Have you tried a different kernel version?

No I haven't .. I'm afraid I might totally screw everything up .. It's a minor irritant that I can live with

if it dose then you fix it

also u cp the .config from your current kernel and use it to make the next kernel.....

you also dont write over your working kernel so that if the new kernel is screwed you can boot the old kernel! (i have half a dozen kernels here)
so haw can you screw it up

**junkman4547** · 07-09-2005

Hi Loft306, as it turns out, I screwed up my Gentoo box anyway. It happens when I do

emerge --update world

which took about 15 hours, when I woke up the next morning
it had stopped, the message said ....error about KDE graphic...
or something in the nature. Afterward it would booted up to
the point of starting KDE .... then it hung there at ...initializing
peripherals......after a while it stopped and gave me a blank
desk top with no icons whatsoever ! ! ! .....

Now, I´m still deft and dumb when it comes to the nitty gritty
of Linux..... I wouldn´t know where to begin to solve this
problem. So I erased the whole drive and start over.....again
for the eleventh time.........sigh.....

The kernel that comes with my Gentoo CD is...2.6.11-r3.

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