On 21/06/13 16:44, Roger Leigh wrote:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 04:06:04PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
When I attempt to power off the machine (either logging out of gnome3, or via
shutdown now typed in at a terminal)
the system goes through the shutdown sequence (it does seem to pause after
telling all processes to terminate and
then reports that some processes are still running). It finally reports it is
about to power off.
But the computer then restarts and reboots.
If I load up Debian Wheezy and shut that down, the computer powers off properly.
I don't think this is a change in sysvinit/initscripts. There have
been no significant changes made since the wheezy release.
Could you possibly try booting with the wheezy kernel and then trying
to reboot? This will identify whether it's due to a change in the
kernel or something in userspace.
I am not sure precisely what you want me to do. I tried the following
SID (with kernel 3.9.1) installed on /dev/sda1 (an SSD)
Wheezy (with kernel (3.2.0) on /dev/sdb1 (Sata Hard Drive)
I'd like you to install the wheezy kernel on the sid system, and
then start the system using this kernel (should be selectable
using GRUB), and then see if rebooting works. This will tell us
if the sid kernel is at fault here.
You are correct - its the kernel. I installed the 3.2.0-4 kernel from
wheezy into my sid system and booted from it and it shuts down perfectly
(presumably using the same sysvinit scripts.)
Just one potential proviso. I run virtual box and then makes a kernel
module which is installed into 3.9.0. However it failed to find the
correct dkms.conf file and failed to build and install this module into
the older kernel.
I suspect I would need to take more time to try that out. However,
although I have lived with SID and its issues for many years now, I am
currently doing paid work (that is what Virtual Box is for - I am
booting into Windows) which requires a somewhat more reliable platform.
When wheezy was first released I had frequent problems with
gnome-shell/X locking up solid - but this recent attempt to try to boot
into wheezy has shown me that there is some upgrades which look like
they address this issue. So I am likely to move away from Sid this
weekend and install Wheezy permanently on my SSD.
Alan
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