I have a new AMD mother board GA-A75-D3H with a new installation of open SUSE 12.1 and this will not shut down properly. It reaches the final stage of shutdown but then immediately starts again.
I have tried the command “shutdown -h now” and it does the same.
I have looked in bios and can find nothing suspicious. I double boot with windows XP and this shuts down normally.
Any cues on how to fix it?
32bit, 64bit OS?
Which desktop manager are you using? KDM? GDM? ???
KDE? GNOME? ???
Do you get the same result with cmd,
/sbin/halt -hip
I use KDE with a 64 bit OS.
The halt command works as the rest - shut down then start again.
I downloaded the SUSE 12.1 myself - there may be a problem with its integrity, but every thing else works fine.
Check the install media. Boot it and run check media that will tell if you have a good burn. Check checksum of the iso you downloaded to be sure you have a good download.
I checked the burn - and it failed!
I then looked at the md5 checksum and the iso matched it fine.
I then burned another DVD from the iso (this one passed the media check) and installed open SUSE again.
Unfortunately the same problem remains.
To be sure, I downloaded openSUSE 12.1 again and went through the above without problems, reinstalled SUSE. The problem is still there (fortunately I have everything backed up, so this is not hard to do).
On 2011-12-30 20:46, dick222 wrote:
> Unfortunately the same problem remains.
Can you try lives of other distros?
I’m thinking of a Bugzilla.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Try the older systemV init. By default OpenSUSE uses systemd which is a new startup system
At boot screen press F5 and select systemV
If that helps we can set it permanent.
Thanks for the thought about systemV - I tried it and it did not work.
I have also tried the live version of kubuntu 10.04 (32 bit) that I have here, and that presented the same shutdown problem.
I then retried Windows XP (that is a double boot) and that shut down normally.
Well, I don’t know where to go with the problem. I guess it is related to my new motherboard or CPU since I have never had this happen before. Again, I did look in the bios and that looked normal to me, but perhaps there is something clever in there which should be changed. I have never upgraded the bios, but wonder if this is worth investigating. It seems as if the hardware is not responding to the final shutdown key somehow.
On 2011-12-31 10:16, dick222 wrote:
> Thanks for the thought about systemV - I tried it and it did not work.
>
> I have also tried the live version of kubuntu 10.04 (32 bit) that I
> have here, and that presented the same shutdown problem.
>
> I then retried Windows XP (that is a double boot) and that shut down
> normally.
Bugzilla, then.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
This sounds like an ACPI issue. What happens if you boot with the noacpi option?
This is getting beyond my experience!
I used noacpi as the only option in the boot screen before booting and this made no difference to the problem.
The booting was different to normal, so I suppose it did something.
Maybe I should go to bugzilla.
This is already fixed in more recent KDE – the current stable is 4.7.4.
If you read the existing threads on this topic (which is a KDE problem, so should be in the Applications sub-forum), you would see the solution.
System Settings >> Administration >> Login Screen >> Shutdown tab > halt field : /sbin/shutdown -h -P now
I have now upgraded KDE to 4.7.4 release 11, and regrettably the problem is still there.
Please check the release notes.
Try using:
halt -p
In addition, make sure that “kexec” is set to “no” in System → System Services.
Hello,
Try also in the halt field : /sbin/shutdown -P now
Worked for me in 12.1 with KDE 4.7.2 release 5.
If you have the standard 12.1 setup with systemd, have a look at the systemctl cmds.
cmd,
info systemctl
gives a fair amount of info
For example,
systemctl poweroff
This cmd works ok on this PC but then the cmd,
halt -hip
also works ok.
For me this problem has appeared with kernel 3.1.10-1.13.1-desktop. I use xfce and button “Shut Down” stoped corectly working (it stoped the system but didn’t power off). So I coldn’t use systemctl.
Problem disapeared with kernel 3.1.10-1.9-desktop. But before that I tested that problem and discovered strange dependency on program calling form. Exactly, coreect working was commands:
poweroff
shutdown -h now
But commands
/sbin/poweroff
/sbin/shutdown -h now
didn’t power off the notebook.
May be this help you.
JiraZy
On 07/02/2012 07:56 AM, jiraz wrote:
>
> For me this problem has appeared with kernel 3.1.10-1.13.1-desktop. I
> use xfce and button “Shut Down” stoped corectly working (it stoped the
> system but didn’t power off). So I coldn’t use systemctl.
> Problem disapeared with kernel 3.1.10-1.9-desktop. But before that I
> tested that problem and discovered strange dependency on program calling
> form. Exactly, coreect working was commands:
> poweroff
> shutdown -h now
> But commands
> /sbin/poweroff
> /sbin/shutdown -h now
> didn’t power off the notebook.
> May be this help you.
If you had read the other threads about this problem, it was a kernel error that
has been fixed.