On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:30:55PM +0200, Nicolas DEGAND wrote: > Le Mercredi 8 Juin 2005 21:17, Sjoerd Simons a écrit : > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:06:37AM +0200, Nicolas DEGAND wrote: > > > Le Lundi 6 Juin 2005 15:40, Sjoerd Simons a écrit : > > > > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:52:33AM +0200, Nicolas DEGAND wrote: > > > > > Package: hal > > > > > Version: 0.4.8-1 > > > > > Severity: minor > > > > > > > > > > When shutting down my computer it tries for at least a minute to stop > > > > > HAL. When at last it stops, it prints the following error message : > > > > > > > > > > run-parts: /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal exited with return > > > > > code 2 > > > > > > > > What happens if you run /etc/dbus-1/event.d/20hal stop manually ? > > > > > > It shuts down instantaneously > > > > With what exit code ? > > I apologize. My previous answer was totally wrong. I stopped and restarted it > as a normal user and as root multiple times and got confused about what was > exactly going on. > > I made again the test as root. > > It displays "Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: " forever. Then goes back > to > the prompt on the same line than the message. And afterwards hald is still > running. So basically shutting it down manually does nothing. > > I have also found something else. If I shut down my computer just after I > started it (precisely before having logged in kdm and using the kdm shutdown > menu), hald stops quickly
Could you check if hald goes into state D after you have it running for some time ? > By the way, I just realized that having a daemon called HAL unwilling to shut > down on my computer is somehow funny. It just has a mind of it's own sometimes :) Sjoerd -- In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart. -- Ann Frank