openSUSE 11.2 does not shut down!!

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First of all sorry for my English.I hope you understand what im going to tell you.I have a desktop computer with Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz,3.010,60 MHz speed,1,5 GiB RAM,nVidia GeForce 6600.When i’m going to shut down the computer the machine just don’t do it.I don’t know why.Everything else working fine.Can i do something to fix this?

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Try adding this in the boot line when you boot the PC

acpi=off

Here is what I mean
This show adding something different, you just type acpi=off instead of the 3

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gastoneduck wrote:
> When i’m going to shut down the computer the machine just don’t do
> it.I don’t know why.

your english is great!

when you right click the desktop and select “Log Out” and then click
“Turn off computer”, what happens? does it pop up a green screen that
just stays there forever, or what?

if the green screen comes, press Esc and you can see behind it and may
get a clue of what the problem is…write down the last two or three
lines and post them back to here…

and, answer these questions:

  1. did you download a Live CD or DVD?
  2. did you md5sum check the iso for errors prior to burning the disk?
  3. read how here: http://en.opensuse.org/Download_Help
    if the iso you downloaded is not 100% accurate, do NOT proceed until
    it is…read the download help on how to repair it
  4. did you check the disk after buring like this:
    http://tinyurl.com/yajm2aq
  5. did you have any error messages during install
  6. have you ever installed or used Linux before? [by the way, welcome
    here!]
  7. kind, brand, model of machine
  8. did you install KDE, Gnome or some other desktop environment
  9. did this problem happen the very first time you tried to shutdown,
    or did it work for some days/weeks and then suddenly wouldn’t shut
    down…when did this first begin?

–
palladium

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If there’s a segmentation fault at the end of the shutdown process have a look at Segmentation fault during shutdown - openSUSE Forums

But I’ve seen some users not being able to shutdown within KDE (simply nothing happens).

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Thank’s for the fast replies guys.
The 2 lines are:The system will be halted immediatlyand
Segmentation fault.
I download the DvD and i;m not having any errors during install.I’m using kubuntu before because i like KDE and openSUSE is the better one out there.The problem happened from the first time i’m trying to shutdown.
I;m not a linux expert i’m an amateur that’s for sure but i want to try because i’m seek of windows…oh and i’m not checking any media before.I just installing.

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Have a look at the link I posted and the bugreport.
If the progress is finished, you can turn off your computer by pressing the power button for a few seconds. Thats fine so far.

A fix should come via update by the end of the week.

Another way would be to install the previous kernel zypper in kernel-$FLAVOR=2.6.31.8 where $FLAVOUR would be desktop or default in most cases (check with uname -a)

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Thank you.I think that i’m going to wait for the update.

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I have same problems, I can reboot system but am not able to shutdown properly.
cat /var/log/boot.msg |grep -i bios
<6> 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<6> 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
<6> 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
<6> 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
<6> 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fff0000 (usable)
<6> 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007fff0000 - 000000007fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
<6> 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007fff3000 - 0000000080000000 (ACPI data)
<6> 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
<5> 0.000000] Phoenix BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.
<6> 0.000000] #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
<6> 0.000000] #4 [000009fc00 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009fc00 - 0000100000]
<6> 0.200488] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb270, last bus=2
<6> 0.257462] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
<4> 6.876272] via-rhine: Broken BIOS detected, avoid_D3 enabled.

It occurs when I switched to KDE 4.3.5, I think.
Uname -a gives: 2.6.31.12-0.1-default #1 SMP 2010-01-27 08:20:11 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

My system ends up with green window, all drives are down.

Nevertheless, I never had such a stable Linux system!

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The update to fix this has been delayed for some reason. It hurts nothing it is just inconvenient to have to actually press the power button

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This is a fairly widespread problem with kernel 2.6.31.12-0.1.1.i586
It is described in bugzilla at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578222
You can get around it by going back to 2.6.31.8-0.1, or installing the latest kernel from Index of /repositories/Kernel:/openSUSE-11.2/openSUSE_11.2/i586

Regards,
Howard

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The above url is not correct, you would need to go up a level
This repo works well for me
Index of /repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_11.2

But only do this if you are confident you can manage it:)