Other Help Topics :: Hangs on shutdown

roberts:

This post with "dsl 2" wasn't from me, but I have tried it now as well. Unfortunately without success. The "dsl 2" boot-option doesn't seem to work on my Thinkpad, the boot-behaviour is exactly the same as without this option. DSL boots with X (graphical surface). I also tried "dsl 2 toram" in order to see if other options are going to work. This "toram" option did work on next boot, but still with X (graphical surface).

Then I opened a CLI window, where I typed in the folowing: "sudo shutdown -h now". Command has been accepted and prompt has gone to next line. First seconds, nothing happend, I was able to move the mouse arrow around. Some later seconds, the mouse arrow position became frozen. Some more later seconds, the double-beep came out of the speaker. Same behaviour as with powerdown from the menu. Screen is exactly the same as before powerdown, but the whole system is frozen and after this double-beep, there is nothing further being done. Only a manual hardware power-off can be done then.

if you see this at runlevel 2 then that eliminates X and flux and possible memory leak.

double beep might indicate pcmcia

Try this command to see if there is an irq conflict on your hardware.
Look for pcmcia card, like yenta. Are you on dialup winmodem?

dmesg | grep irq

Strange. I would understand this, when the system wouldn't boot with graphical surface (x, flux or however it is called). But in my case, I only get a boot with this graphical surface. The option "dsl 2" is ignored for any reason. My system has 128 MB Ram, this should be sufficient for most things.

You were wright with this double-beep.
I removed my pcmcia-ethernet-card and tried again. Result was exactly the same but without this double-beep. Does this mean that the system is still alive, but inputs from mouse or keyboard become blocked due to something wrong in system?
What was this double-beep for on the pcmcia-card?

I also did this "dmesg | grep irq" then.
In brief form:

PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0 on irq 14
ide1 on irq 15
Yenta ISA PCI irq 11
Yenta ISA PCI irq 11
ttys14 (irq=11) is a Lucent Modem (is not connected)

Maybe I should try some bios power-management-options?
But why does it work with Win..?
Shutdown/Reboot is not problem with Win..

Unfortunately I can't try Knoppix, as my CD-drive don't work anymore on my Thinkpad. Bus as far as I remember .. hmm.. yes, it could have been that I also had problems with reboot and shutdown (in early Knoppix versions).

Any chance to get it running without these problems?

I think for your particular machine, it is hanging at trying to literally turn off the power. The double beep is normal.
So, your options are to poke around in bios settings for power mgmt settings and or try the boot options acpi=off noapic pnpnbios pci-bios. Also you could google for your machine and knoppix to see if anyone else has solved it with bios or boot options.

Key, When you exit the window manager and type the shutdown command what do you see on the screen?

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