openSUSE11.2 re-boot/shutdown blackscreen

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Hi,

I have been trying to fix this for some time, on and off, and have been unable to, I have also ben unable to find a solution in the forums.

I have installed openSUSE11.2 GNOME on a laptop, the install went fine, and it runs great, except for two problems:

  1. When I start up the splash screen doesn’t show (this isn’t really important, and I am happy to watch as everything is loaded)
  2. When I shutdown/reboot the computer freezes and I have to use the power button to switch off.
    This doesn’t happen every time I shutdown, but most of the time.
    The freeze happens at different points of shutdown, so I don’t know where to find what is causing the problem.

As I mentioned point 1 is not really important, although I would like to know why this is happening, but problem 2 is very important.

I have submitted a bug report id=560663 for this problem, but so far there has been no fix.

Thank you for your help,
Barry Nichols.

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as for number one, the same happens to me, just make sure the boot screen has

splash=silent

it however still does that to me.

As for number two, has this always happened or did it happen after a new installed program or update?

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Hi,

  1. Yes, splash=silent everything else seems to be set correctly.

I have turned to splash screen off in the past, and on again (this was in 11.0/11.1). But in 11.2 I haven’t been able to get the splash screen working at all.

  1. The other problem has always happened since install, I am using GNOME, install from GNOME live-CD, but I tried installing KDE from KDE live-CD aswell, this also had the same problem, so I believe it to be something to do with incompatibility, of 11.2, with my hardware, but I don’t understand why the problem appeared in 11.2 but not in 11.1.

As I know there was a change, auto configure of xorg in 11.2, I tried running sax2, but it had no effect.

thanks,
Barry.

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what hardware do you have?

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Hi,

The computer I’m using is a DELL INSPIRON 1150 Laptop, it has Intel Integrated graphics and an Intel Celeron processor.
I’m using a Netgear wireless PC card for the wireless connection.

But what doesn’t make sense, is the fact that everything works while the computer is on.

Thanks,
Barry.

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yeah, that doesn’t make sense, are you sure that it doesn’t shut off close to the same spot everytime

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vader95 <vader95@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> writes:

> yeah, that doesn’t make sense, are you sure that it doesn’t shut off
> close to the same spot everytime

Yeah, I’m sure. Sometimes its partway through the list of things
shutting down, sometimes it’s just as I hit the shutdown button the
screen goes black; either way the lights flash together as with a kernel
panic and I can’t do anything but hold the power button.

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Regards,
Barry Nichols

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What is your ‘tail /var/log/warn’ showing?

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dale14846 <dale14846@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> writes:

> What is your ‘tail /var/log/warn’ showing?

Jan 6 19:56:46 linux-h4w8 gdm-simple-greeter[1817]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_param_spec_flags: assertion G_TYPE_IS_FLAGS (flags_type)' failed Jan 6 19:56:46 linux-h4w8 gdm-simple-greeter[1817]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_class_install_property: assertion G_IS_PARAM_SPEC (pspec)’ failed
Jan 6 19:56:56 linux-h4w8 if-up.d/21-dhcpcd-hook-samba: No dhcpcd info nor dhclient leases file found for wlan0.
Jan 6 19:57:00 linux-h4w8 pulseaudio[1866]: ratelimit.c: 1 events suppressed
Jan 6 23:41:44 linux-h4w8 sshd[13005]: pam_env(sshd:setcred): non-alphanumeric key ‘alias aumix=padsp aumix’ in /etc/environment’, ignoring
Jan 6 23:41:44 linux-h4w8 sshd[13005]: pam_env(sshd:setcred): non-alphanumeric key ‘alias sox=padsp sox’ in /etc/environment’, ignoring
Jan 6 23:41:44 linux-h4w8 sshd[13005]: pam_env(sshd:setcred): non-alphanumeric key ‘alias timidity=timidity -Oe’ in /etc/environment’, ignoring
Jan 6 23:41:44 linux-h4w8 sshd[13013]: pam_env(sshd:setcred): non-alphanumeric key ‘alias aumix=padsp aumix’ in /etc/environment’, ignoring
Jan 6 23:41:44 linux-h4w8 sshd[13013]: pam_env(sshd:setcred): non-alphanumeric key ‘alias sox=padsp sox’ in /etc/environment’, ignoring
Jan 6 23:41:44 linux-h4w8 sshd[13013]: pam_env(sshd:setcred): non-alphanumeric key ‘alias timidity=timidity -Oe’ in /etc/environment’, ignoring

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Regards,
Barry Nichols

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Hi,
Try adding acpi=force in your /boot/grub/menu.lst kernel lines
For some information with the above option check this link.
SDB:Kernel Parameters for ACPI/APIC - openSUSE

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Hi,

joerione <joerione@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> writes:

> Hi,
> Try adding acpi=force in your /boot/grub/menu.lst kernel lines
> For some information with the above option check this link.
> ‘SDB:Kernel Parameters for ACPI/APIC - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Kernel_Parameters_for_ACPI/APIC)

Thanks, trying it now.

–
Regards,
Barry Nichols

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Barry Nichols <BarryDavidNichols@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> joerione <joerione@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> Try adding acpi=force in your /boot/grub/menu.lst kernel lines
>> For some information with the above option check this link.
>> ‘SDB:Kernel Parameters for ACPI/APIC - openSUSE’
>> (http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Kernel_Parameters_for_ACPI/APIC)
>
> Thanks, trying it now.

Still the same.

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Regards,
Barry Nichols

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Hi,

I was looking through the /var/log/warn and found the following 2 lines:
Jan 7 05:11:32 linux-h4w8 kernel: 15.708502] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max)
Jan 7 05:11:38 linux-h4w8 kernel: 20.941669] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: Invalid BIOS _PSS frequency: 0x0 MHz

and after you suggested ‘acpi=force’, I thought they may be related to
my problem.

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Regards,
Barry Nichols

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What’s the screen resolution of the laptop? It might be the splash is too big.

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Knurpht <Knurpht@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> writes:

> What’s the screen resolution of the laptop? It might be the splash is
> too big.

1024 x 768, where would I find out the size of the splash?

Also has anyone had any more ideas about fixing the freeze on
shutdown/reboot?

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Regards,
Barry Nichols