[solved] shutdown (ish)

alex_uk_86 · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 8 Location: UK

I installed gentoo yesterday and all went pretty well, except for when i came to shutting it down or rebooting.

after typing reboot or shutdown it goes through an shuts down all the processes fine, but then just say "INIT: no more processes in this runlevel" or something to that effect, and sits there without actually rebooting or turning off.

I've double checked that i compiled the kernel with ACPI and i have :-)

i've tried typing halt -fp and it does power off

I've installed gentoo in the past and never had this problem.

I've got a fujitsu-siemens amilo D 7830 laptop,

I suspect it is some kind of problem with init, but i don't know what i've done to break it :-(

any advice?

Alex

PanzerKanzler · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject:

I have had similar problems on a few machines, but I don't know the cause. Rebooting can often be done by ctrl-alt-del when the shutdown command has different ideas about what is to be done.
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alex_uk_86 · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 8 Location: UK

ctl-alt-del don't work. If i pressed it when its shutting down it has no effect, and if i press it to cause a restart it still has the same problem.

PanzerKanzler · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject:

Hmm.. Then I would take a look in /var/log/messages to see if APM/ACPI is doing something strange. What happens if you disable APM/ACPI?
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alex_uk_86 · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 8 Location: UK

no messages about acpi or apm(which is off anyway btw)

i've recompiled the kernel a couple time with different selections on acpi, but nothings had any effect. I don't think thats the problem anyway because halt -hp DOES work. This leads me to suspect there is a problem in the execution of the script between finishing with shutting down processes and acutally powering off the computer.

My main problem is i don't have sufficient understanding of these scripts.

Thanks for the suggestions though

bunder · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject:

i think the init stuff is a part of baselayout... i would try re-emerging it and doing an etc-update.

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alex_uk_86 · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 8 Location: UK

Right. I've just tried re-emerging my baselayout, and env-updated, but thats not worked, it still come up with exactly the thing. It just gets to the point with "INIT: no processes left in the runlevel" and sits there.

Is there something it is supposed to do between this point and actually turning the computer off?

Thanks for the suggestion

PanzerKanzler · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:52 am Post subject:

Do you get this problem when you try to shut down from the livecd? If no, then it definitely is a configuration thing, and you can then look at what settings the livecd has (for instance lsmod etc). Unfortunately I feel I am not able to help you very much

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alex_uk_86 · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 8 Location: UK

hummm, it does reboot and shutdown correctly when booted from the CD.

The problem with looking at the CD's settings is that i need to know where to start looking. This is very annoying.

PanzerKanzler · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately I have no such CD here so I can't verify this, but I think the config used for the livecd resides in /proc/config.gz
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bexamous2 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 80

Anyone have any idea why shutdown fails so often? I've been getting alot of people asking me about this and its also a problem I've seen before. 'init 0' or 'init 6' work fine, doing poweroff or reboot works, but the 'shutdown now' or 'shutdown -h now' commands don't work.

This isn't just a Gentoo thing, although I had a Gentoo system with this problem.

I don't understand what the shutdown command is doing differently that causes it to not work with so many setups.

alex_uk_86 · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 8 Location: UK

for me the power off and reboot commands arn't working either. The only thing that does actually work for powering off the machine is halt -fp, which skips changing the run level to 0/6 and just cuts the power (so it was good as a test to see if it could cut the power, but not for every day thankyou very much :wink:

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and panzerKanxler, i couldn't see anything particularly special in the /proc/config.gz, but i'll look again when i've got time.

alex_uk_86 · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 8 Location: UK

Hi guys.

I seem to have solved it.

I got very frustrated with it this morning so i decided to start over with it. That wasn't the ideal solution and as it happens, didn't work!

BUT ... when i was running through the handbook installing, i emerged the baselayout as it says to avoid the problem with not recognising dhcp. When i was doing this i noticed that it updated sysVinit, while it was doing this i noticed halt.sh and its friends run up the screen and thought "ah!".

Anyway, when i was finished installed, i booted my fresh gentoo install and tried "reboot", and it did the same problem it has before. But i re-emerged sysvinit, env-updated and tried "reboot" and it worked :lol:

HURRAY FOR MY BRAIN!