On Friday 21 September 2012, leee wrote:
On Friday 21 September 2012 15:39:37 Lisi wrote:
On Friday 21 September 2012 14:40:21 Slávek Banko wrote:
Dne pá 21. září 2012 Lisi napsal(a):
It usually gets stuck at a very early stage. I repeat, that it doesn't do this every time, and if I could find a way of getting out of the hang without messing up my file system I could probably live with it. Tho' it would be nice not to have to do so.
Thanks, Slavek. You are stalwart as well as a genius!
When it hangs, works even login on text console? If so, kdm_greet is still running? And if so, try to kill it: killall -9 kdm_greet.
Hi, Slávek!
I haven't tried. I haven't had a chance to try! The machine is too busy not shutting down.
I'll watch out for a chance to try it. Which is probably the best way possible of ensuring that it doesn't fail for days!
Come to think of it I could/should have tried ssh-ing in.
Lisi
What do you see on the screen once it has stopped doing anything? Is it a blank X screen or has X closed down and dropped you back to the console? If you've been dropped back to the console, are there any relevant messages on the it? If you're left with a blank X display when it hangs can you do a Ctrl&Alt&F1 to get to the console?
Or can you press Ctrl&Alt&Del when it hangs. Mine hang from time to time on shutting down timidity-daemon. I than was able to press Ctrl&Alt&Del and shut down proceeded. I de-installed the deamon, now the problem is gone.
Gerhard