Ubuntu hangs on shutdown

zensunni · 11-14-2010, 10:26 AM

When I shutdown, Ubuntu hangs at that shutting-down screen. The one with five dots under the Ubuntu logo that change color to show you it's thinking.

There was an article I followed on adding a script to the startup process. That was one of the last system changes I was doing before this happened.

Here's the article:
http://embraceubuntu.com/2005/09/07/...run-at-bootup/

When I ran the "update-rc.d FOO defaults" command, it seemed to work, but I got an error. I REALLY wish I would have written that error down.

At that shut-down screen, is there a way to switch to a terminal to see what process is holding up the shutdown? That might be the way to go about it.

I'm using 10.04 LTS Ubuntu.

zensunni · 11-14-2010, 10:30 AM

I just realized I should post my script...
That could definately have something to do with it.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

export DISPLAY=:0.0;
export  XAUTHORITY=$(ps h $(pidof X) | awk '{print $11}');

for (( ; ; ))
do

   sleep 3600
   /usr/bin/xmessage -button ok -center "Hourly Reminder"

done

BTW, I tried killing the "hourly reminder" process & then the sleep process before shutdown and I still got the hang, though.

bmarx · 11-14-2010, 11:06 AM

You can use the below link to see how to get a more verbose output from startup/shutdown:

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/l...39504.aspx?p=3

But the solution to your problem seems to be to remove that script that you added in from the shutdown scripts. Ubuntu is most likely executing that script with "stop" as an argument on shutdown, and expects the script to handle this properly.

You could also try running the update-rc.d command for the script and specifying only the startup options as opposed to "defaults". See "man update-rc.d"