Performance is good, almost everything works perfectly except it can’t seem to shut down.
It starts to shut down, but it gets to the screen with the white loading bar under the suse logo, and it only gets about 5% in, and it just stops and I have to force a power down with the power button.
I can boot/restart just fine, but I guess there’s something wrong with the shutdown script. I googled around to try to see how to do a verbose shutdown but I haven’t had any luck finding it for 11.4.
Also, Tuxracer won’t open anymore (which i’d used to verify that opengl was working on my video card…and also to collect fish at high speeds). I’ve tried removing it and reinstalling it but no luck, and it just worked the other day.
I’m also not sure if the latest nvidia driver from the nvidia repository is specifically a quadro driver or if it’s a unified driver - I just don’t want the system to think I’m using a GeForce if I paid for a Quadro. Is there any easy way to get the system to report what video card it’s using?
With one of my computers, shutdown works fine but reboot always hangs.
In your case, when you next reboot, do a failsafe boot. Then, from the console, login as root. See if you can shutdown with “shutdown -h now”.
If that works, then your suspicion of the video might be correct. If that doesn’t work, then it is more likely to be an acpi problem or a BIOS problem, or an incompatibility with the kernel and something in your hardware/BIOS.
Keep in mind, Tux racer continues to NOT work, and I’m deeply distraught over the issue.
Any information concerning this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Also, why did my fix work? I am not understanding.
I am having the same problem, but not on an intel machine. Mine is an AMD thuban 6 core processor, everything functioned perfectly on 11.3 however now with 11.4 I am getting the same hang on shutdown as you. Nothing I have done will allow it to shut down from the GUI. I can force a shutdown as root with shutdown now -h -p.
It isn’t a show stopper for me as my machine runs 24/7, but it is annoying enough that I have been googling for days. I have yet to come up with a solution and this thread is the first I have seen where someone is having the same problem.
I have the Gnome desktop.
I had the shutdown problem on my AMD 6 core box since 11.4 release day, also about 50% of the time a new start would require a reboot as clicking on a desktop icon would do nothing, tried reinstalling a few times but it didn’t help then yesterday I did a new install and now everything is working perfect.
Been using the proprietary nVidia driver installed the hard way all along by the way.
I am convinced that the install yesterday downloaded some fix.
to clear up any confusion, I have an AMD 6-core system, NOT an intel.
So it seems the problem is entirely central to AMD 6-cores. It seems to me that a bug needs to be issued to the developers or sent up the chain somehow.
I fixed it by turning off IOAPIC in my bios. it works fine now, but if IOAPIC is an important thing…it should probably be on, it should just…work…when it’s turned on.