Distro not shutting down....

[Chris H]

I really couldn't care less but a few other recent posts have got me moving for a solution.

Gentoo.

On "# shutdown now" it does it's business til it gets to "Saving random seed" or summat like that. And that's as far as it gets. Just sits there, no activity, nothing.

Reboot works fine.

Any ideas/pointers?

Ta.

[sarumont]

Anything telling in your logs?

[Chris H]

Anything telling in your logs?

Which ones

[Radiant]

I have a similar problem in the past, but my solution is a recompile the Linux kernel and set on the APM or ACPI option (see if your hardware it's compatible with APM or ACPI)

Good luck dude.

[Pimp Daddy]

I don't know if the command works for Gentoo, but to shut down from Slackware I type:

shutdown -h now

Maybe you should try that. I can give you a much better answer because I haven't worked with this OS for very long. Before that I just turned it off at the boot loader or shutdown in Windows (in your case that would be Mandrake - am I right?)

[Chris H]

Will try tonight with the -h optin.

Ta.

[stathisx]

try also halt -p command..........

[Pimp Daddy]

If my previous suggestion didn't work, you could also try:

telinit 0

It has to be zero because that's the standard system shutdown number. I'm not sure whether this will work in Gentoo either but there's nothing to stop you trying.