I just installed openSUSE 11.2 (clean install instead of direct upgrade from 11.1) but experience a problem each time I shutdown (or reboot) the machine. Each time I attempt a shutdown, the shutdown process starts and I see the various things being killed and eventually the laptop just hangs and the lights on my laptop flash. The only thing to do then is to hit the power switch.
The laptop doesn’t seem to hang at the same place each time and doesn’t always hang…but almost every time.
This is behaviour that I never had with my 11.1 installation.
Sorry, i have never experienced that. At which step of shutdown does your laptop hang? If it hangs on halt, i might have a solution.
Please let me know.
Well…since my last posting, the hanging during shutdown hasn’t happened again! I have no idea why though.
If it does happen again, I shall try the noacpi option. The other week I tried the “acpi=off” option but had to take this out because it then stopped the system coming up.
I have this problem with OpenSUSE 11.2 installed on an old Dell Dimension 2400. The hang occurs on shutdown right after the acpi line in the shutdown sequence. Would like to know more about this before installing OS 11.2 on a primary machine.
well unfortunately I spoke too soon. Even with the “noacpi” switch, my Inspiron has started hanging near the end of the shutdown process again…and regularly! (once again, a problem that I never had with previous openSUSE versions).
I have this issue as well. I don’t think a re-install will fix it. I have 11.2 on my desktop machine and it runs perfectly. However my desktop has an NVIDIA graphics card and is current hardware. I have had a ton of problems with my pavilion ze4700 (old laptop at work) and it’s old ati RS100 4336. I have solved all issues but this power off one. I had a similar problem with 10.3 and found that the kernel was the culprit that time. My system seems to power off correctly until it shows the line:
The system will be halted imediately!
It just sits there with the console stuck. It seems to be shutdown, it’s just not killing the power. When I re-boot all is fine, no FS checks or anything like that. Heck even the 3D works fine. Close enough for now I guess
You could try blacklisting modules. If you can identify a specific module that’s doing it, you might be able to work around it by manually unloading it earlier in the shutdown sequence.
My eee hangs on many distros when it tries to unload snd_hda_intel, and on some you can fix it like this. You can probably find more information by googling ‘eee shutdown hang’.
