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Re: cannot logoff/shutdown properly



On 8/21/07, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> [ You should leave some context in your messages, especially if you are
>   reviving a thread which has been inactive for almost a month;
>   otherwise people might mistake you for one of those "special" posters
>   from debianhelp.org... ]

will remember to do that next time!

> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:29:53 -0400, Manu Hack wrote:
> > I finally have the chance to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log in recovery
> > mode but it didn't have anything with "(EE)" or "(WW)".
> >
> > And in recovery mode, I can shutdown properly with shutdown -h now.
>
> That suggests to me that the shutdown problem might be related to the
> video driver that you use for Xorg.
>
> > Any more suggestion?
>
> Did you try the "vesa" driver already? (as I suggested earlier)

Yes, it turns out that similar problem is still there.

>
> Which video card do you have and which driver do you normally use?
>

I have been using i810 for a while and before it had no problem until
an update months ago.

> Also, are there any interesting entries in /var/log/syslog around the
> time of the crashes/freezes?
I don't think so.

Manu



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