Re: shutdown -r hangs

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Wed November 26 2008, François Cerbelle wrote:
> > why won't it reboot, or what can I look at?
>
> Do you have the acpi module loaded in kernel ?

I think so, see daemon.log entries:
Nov 23 11:00:33 paulandcilla acpid: client connected from 4576[0:0]
Nov 23 11:00:34 paulandcilla acpid: client connected from 4576[0:0]
Nov 23 11:20:25 paulandcilla acpid: client connected from 4162[0:0]
Nov 23 11:20:25 paulandcilla acpid: client connected from 4162[0:0]
Nov 23 11:26:14 paulandcilla smartd[3968]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Usage 
Attribute: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel changed from 65 to 64
Nov 23 11:26:14 paulandcilla smartd[3968]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Usage 
Attribute: 194 Temperature_Celsius changed from 115 to 114
Nov 23 13:00:45 paulandcilla ntpd[3456]: adjusting local clock by 0.129000s

>
> I have similar problems (for halt) and solved it with the acpi module. It
> might be the apm module too.
>
apm ??

> If acpi is not loaded, try :
> modprobe acpi

did that, it just returned my prompt
> then
> shutdown -r now
>
no joy, same results.

> If it works, add acpi in /etc/modules or install the acpi package

hmm, the only line in /etc/modules that isn't commented out is a single line:
loop



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