On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:29:17 +0800 (CST) Zhang Weiwu <zhangwe...@realss.com> wrote:
> Using Debian 6.0. reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing except announcing > the shutdown and halt the ssh session that issued the command. > > But beyond that it really did nothing. Among the things it did not do > are: > > - no process are killed or terminated. None of mysql, apache, cron > daemons are shut down, and the website it serves keeps online just > fine. > - although the ssh session whence the command issued is halted, I can > still login with a new ssh session. > - last(1) and uptime(1) doesn't remember having any shutdown. > > The only thing I can find that prooves I issued shutdown is a > one-line messages like this in /var/log/messages: > Feb 17 07:55:30 localhost shutdown[11212]: shutting down for system > halt > > Or this: > Feb 17 07:54:24 localhost shutdown[11084]: shutting down for system > reboot > > The problem is reproducible: if I unplug the power, and start again, > it predictablly fail to shutdown / reboot. > Do you by any chance have pulseaudio installed? I ask because my sid workstation started doing almost exactly this a few days ago. Also, some applications worked, some froze. Iceweasel quickly ground to a halt, Konqueror didn't. 'Almost' exactly, because initially it happened sometimes. When it moved to happening on every boot, I had to fix it. If I left it showing the console logon screen (after my DE had closed) then after about half a minute it would display loads of trace information, scrolling off the screen, and the only thing I could see that I understood was 'alsactl'. I looked back at recent upgrades, of course, but this is sid and there were perhaps a hundred packages upgraded in the previous couple of days. Eventually a few more clues confirmed that it was an audio problem, and suggested pulseaudio, which I had installed a couple of months earlier for a particular experiment. I ripped it out, and sound no longer worked of course, but my computer would shut down again, and Iceweasel worked. Running the alsa configuration restored sound. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140217090125.76b1f...@jretrading.com
