Re: cannot logoff/shutdown properly

[Giorgos Pallas <gpall@ccf.auth.gr>]

And my 2 (problem) cents here... I have debian lenny on my laptop with
KDE and since I installed it, there were two problems: It could not log
off everytime (right click and log-out sometimes was ignored, even if I
did it a hundred times), and second, acpi could not switch the laptop
off: the last messages on the screen were (something like):
unmounting local filesystems
shutdown
acpi power off called

and there it stayed. So, the first problem has not reappeared during the
last two months (a upgrade resolved it probably), as for the second, I
discovered that unloading the sound (??) modules before shutdown, lets
the laptop switch off...

modprobe -r snd-hda-intel
modprobe -r snd-hda-codec

Anyway...

G.


Andrei Popescu wrote:
> "Manu Hack" <manuhack@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>> I think the next thing to try is if X blocks the shutdown or if
>>> something else in runlevel 2 is responsible. Shut down X and/or
>>> stop the graphical login manager with
>>>
>>> invoke-rc.d gdm stop
>>>       
>> Maybe a more detailed way to do so is helpful to me for if I run the
>> above command the screen goes black and I lose control of everything.
>>     
>
> If you don't get a login prompt then press Alt-F1 (or F2 - F6). Login
> as root and run 'shutdown'.
>
> HTH,
> Andrei
>