Suse 9.3 Shutdown Problem

jess1975 · 06-08-2005, 02:14 AM

50% of the time when I want to shutdown or restart my computer. It closes KDE like it would normally do and leaves me with a prompt instead of continueing the shutdown process. Here I can log in as root, do an init 6, and then it continues to shutdown but hangs on turning off swap. Anyway the only thing I can do here is pressing the reset button or holding the power button for 4 seconds.

The other 50% of the time it shuts down normally.

Anyone have a clue?

nadroj · 06-08-2005, 02:30 AM

it has to do with power management (ACPI or APM). search either here or google.com/linux about it

jess1975 · 06-08-2005, 12:06 PM

Duhh,

If it has to do with ACPI or APM, then why doesn't it occur everytime?

Like I said, it doesn't occur everytime. Most of the time everything goes well, but then KDE closes and it leaves me with a prompt. I've fppund this in my log:

Jun 8 18:55:31 sirius kdm_config[8821]: Unrecognized key 'UseLilo' in section [Shutdown] at /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:15

Could this be it?

nadroj · 06-08-2005, 01:26 PM

sorry for trying

rollo · 06-08-2005, 03:12 PM

"Duhh" is indeed not a very helpful way to start a reply.

It could easily be power management. I get loads of random error messages, and occasionally shutdown problems, from ACPI. I guess it's something to do with all the hardware variables involved - disk, fan, temperature etc. As for solutions I don't have a clue, so feel free to say "duhh".

jess1975 · 06-09-2005, 09:31 AM

I'm sorry, didn't mean it like that.

In my opion it has something to do with the suspend to disk capability built in Suse. Turning it off doesn't help though.

JLTB · 06-09-2005, 03:07 PM

This was happening to me when I first installed Suse 9.3 as well. Generally I was trying to do a reboot anyway so I would just log in as root and go 'reboot' to keep it going.

The problem hasn't come up in a long time, so I just forgot about it. Heh, there's several wierd things linux does to me sometimes and this was one of the ones I just "put up with."

Not a solution, just a comment.

Kdr Kane · 06-09-2005, 03:29 PM

I find the shutdown command from the KDE menu doesn't always work. So, I've gotten into the habit of going to the command prompt and running the command poweroff.

I have had similar problems on my laptop. But, that is usually due to the network card and probably the hotplug driver. If I turn off the network, it will shutdown fine.

bedi-beparwah · 06-11-2005, 01:05 PM

Just write " halt " in " Run Command...

and Press Enter

And let me know did it work or not ?